The deep forest(open to anyone)

[†~Lamia~†]

The forest was quiet other then the normal forest sounds, Lamia quietly walked down a path that was covered with trees on both sides. Lamia loved plants but nobody would really know this, the only plants he wasn't glad to have around were his own plants that produced nasty exploding fruits. Lamia stopped for a second to think about trying to eat one of those, the images in his head weren't of a tasty fruit worth taking a bite out of.

Lamia looked at were he was standing, the trees almost perfectly aligned as a straight set of rows on either side of the path, he decided to continue walking for a bit and then taking a bit of short break on the path before continuing. Lamia had already walked far deeper then normally into the forest filled with unknown dangers. Suddenly Lamia decided to go lean against a tree for awhile to take his break. Lamia placed his back on a nice sturdy tree and slowly sat against it with his back. For awhile he felt so peaceful and calm and then the thoughts came to him and suddenly words appeared out of his mouth.
"So...bored...."

[Xena]

I would've loved to see the expression on my Cam's face when he sees me like this.

I donned a denim miniskirt today, black leggings covering my bare legs until the area below my knee. A light blue shirt, plain and simple, worn over my upper torso. Takara Yuu's friendship bracelet jiggled on my right wrist as I jumped around, on my way to the Northern Forest. What would have surprised Cam is me being so plain. I kinda figured that my day would be better if I appear as a plain girl with no alice.

Like I was, anyway.

Then, as I walked through familiar paths, I noticed a boy leaning against a tree. He piqued my interest; what business would a boy have in the woods? I don't have any business. Maybe he was just bored? I skipped to him, smiling and waving, although unsure if he can see me. Then I asked - or rather, yelled, since I had too much sugar that morning - if he was all right. "You ookaaaayyy?"

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia was minding his own business off staring deeply in space, he suddenly heard was a girls voice and it wasn't a pleasant soft talking voice it was more of a yell. "Are you okay ?" Suddenly her speaking caught him off guard and he turned to look and see who it was and he graceful as he was he fell backwards startled by her speaking. Lamia pulled himself together quickly and brushed his black pants and coat off and once again standing.
"I'm perfectly fine, just enjoying the weather."

After a few seconds he leaned back up against his tree. Then he thought of why he had such a loud awakening from his little world in his mind. "Why do you ask, anyways ?"

[Xena]

I couldn't stop giggling to save my life, seeing him fall back in surprise from my presence or simply my voice. I turned as red as a tomtato seeing his reaction. I bet any other hyper person would. Hyper people are just not helpful in any situation anyone happens to encounter. Unless of course, it requires running. And I mean, running reeaaally fast. I took this that I should leave the sugar alone now. I was still giggling; nothing was even funny anymore. Sugar makes anyone go madly, maaddlyy, crazy. I ran around the tree he was leaning against earlier while he regained his composure speedily, brushing past his shoulder to come to a halt in front of him again.

Sugar. Gaaahhh.

"I'm perfectly fine, just enjoying the weather," he uttered, acting as if I didn't surprise him enough to make him jump. At this I giggled again. All right, giggle subside, let's hear him speak for once. "Why do you ask, anyways?" I let a shrug envelope my shoulders before I said, "I just thought you were bored, is all. Caaaauuuseeee..." I twirled around in front of him, before immediately stepping forward again, closing in on a new-found male. "I'm bored! Y'see, I was wondering if ever you'd like to come with me around, you know, cause seriously, everyone's going to be bored with no companion and let's face it, havingsomeonearoundmakeslifeeasiercausecausecausecause-" I stopped myself from saying anymore, eyeing him with crimson eyes. I stepped back, for the moment I spoke was all the time needed for me to be close enough to count his eyelashes.

After stepping back, I looked away. "I'm sorry," I quickly uttered softly, feeling drained of energy. "I'm sorry for surprising you like that, and I'm sorry for being so talkative, and I'm sorry for being sorry because of saying sorry, and I'm sorry because I left my purse at my room, I'm sorry fo-" Wait, he didn't have to know that. Sugar's getting to me. "I mean... I'm sorry," I apologized once more, before bubbling up again. "What's up?" Good thing it was only two words this time. I think I invented a new way of speaking a moment ago.

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia watched her run around in some hyper crazy fashion that just plain weirded him out. Soon after stopping from that she began to ramble a bit. Thus Lamia came to the conclusion someone was either on a lot of sugar or just plain too much Coffee, Then well he was lost back in thought she began to over apologized to him for being so hyper.
"It's okay. There is no need to apologize for being so hyper and strange, its perfectly normal for anyone to be like that when they had ermmm too much sugar i guess."

Lamia didn't wanna know why she was so hyper especially when it was the middle of the day. Lamia thought back at what she was saying something about having someone around. Lamia decided then and there what he was gonna be super intelligent to say.
"Sure, you can hang around with me i guess, just promise me you won't scare me like that again. But notice how well i answer questions."

[Xena]

I thought about myself for a while, and all the things that happened to me in this academy. I got late in class, I traversed at night in the town and in the woods, I met my father (which is a term I would not like to use. I'd prefer to call him it.) in two different situations; one that involved Kisara Mizuhara and then, a boy with flaming red hair. Certainly a lot entered my memories and stayed there, many of them holding new friends, yet none of them containing an adversary. Almost odd. But still, none of them involved being incredibly affected by sugar rush. I tried my best to keep straight while thinking, although my foot cannot stop twisting against the ground. Just thinking about sugar made my blood pump. I was jerked out of the thought by the voice of my male companion saying, "It's okay. There is no need to apologize for being so hyper and strange, its perfectly normal for anyone to be like that when they had ermmm... too much sugar I guess." I felt my face burning from embarrassment. I swear, I could've just melted right there and then.

All I could do was nod. I was the definition of pathetic. I kept shut, patiently waiting for him to say something else, rather than my yabbering to disrupt the silence. "Sure," he began, and I beamed. Already I was beginning to start the run around him again, when he spoke once more. I froze in mid-running position, looking at him quizzically, thinking What now? "You can hang around with me I guess," he continued, "just promise me you won't scare me like that again." I straightened up, made a small salute with my forefinger and middle finger raised together, and replied, "Yeeeesss suurr!" My middle finger would then curl like the other fingers and rested my forefinger on my cheek, still shooting the boy a quizzical look. That all? I was about to ask when he said, "But notice how well I answer questions." I nodded, grateful for the company, before I noticed that he had said something other than 'sure.' "Quite well you do," I grinned. Then I decided to introduce myself to save time. Or was it just a product of sugar rush?

"My name's Xena. What's yours?"

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia was just a little surprised at how someone could have so much energy from just sugar, and she sure was kinda strange, but after all the way he could understand gin probably made him a bit strange as well. But that didn't really matter. Suddenly his deep thought was lost by her voice.
"Yess surrrr" As she saluted him for some odd reason.
Her next words came out in more of a normal speaking.
"Quite well you do,"
Then the girl introduced herself as Xena and then asked Lamia his name.

"My name is Lamia, its a pleasure to meet you.....I think." He said just barely moving from his comfortable space, and in his ever so same polite tone of voice. Suddenly Lamia walked closer to her and gently poked her in the side.
"Your not a figment of my boredom are you ?" Lamia continued to poke at the girl. Then Lamia stopped poking at her.
"I guess not, especially if i can touch you, your more then likely real. So that kind of answers my question"

[Xena]

"My name is Lamia, it's a pleasure to meet you... I think."

Nyuu, don't be like that, friend! I wanted to squeal, though I stopped myself from appearing even more creepier/weirder/hyper than earlier. As if anything could change the fact that I was, indeed, creepy/weird/hyper. Anyway, he said his name. I shouldn't forget it this time like I did with that girl Anne, Andy, something. Lamia, I thought, mentally tapping my own head for emphasis. I beamed so much my eyes squinted, which was probably the reason why I jumped when someone gently poked me at the side. Ahaahaaahh, I held the laughters in. I've got terrible tickles... Everywhere. I reduced my grin to a smile to see Lamia himself poking me. "Your not a figment of my boredom are you?" he said, continuing the pokes. WAHWAHWA, I don't think I can hold the burst of giggles anymore unless he stops poking me.

Poke, poke.

My face turned a dark shade of red as I found his question funny. "Haa-haa..." I wheezed uncontrollably. Poke, poke. Finally, Lamia ceased what seemed like a poking session that went for over an hour. I breathed out relief when he did, and my skin turned lighter. "I guess not, especially if I can touch you," he was saying. I kept on musing on how he would act when he thought others were imaginary, "your more then likely real. So that kind of answers my question." I looked at him and asked out of the blue, "So what's Lamia?" I, for sure, do not know where that came from. Ooohh, it can be taken as an insult. I think what I said was a really bad move. I've got to wait to see if it was.

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia waited for the hyper Xena to settle down for a second, because she was still talking a bit much for him to keep up in conversation. "Maybe i need to eat a lot of sugar to help me keep up with the speed in which you talk."

When Lamia was quickly back in his train of thought, but this time it was about the word Lamia, he knew for sure it was a monster said to have devoured children, and half woman half snake, so that really should make people worry that im gonna run around eating children.
"Well a mythical creature, half women, half snake devoured children, and some other mythical blah. But last time i checked im not half a women or half snake, and i don't have the urge to chew on human flesh."

Lamia then grew strangely confused. "Why did she ask that to me ?" He thought to himself. Lamia sat down on the ground and began to poke at her shin. Lamia slowly went back into a daze.

[Xena]

What's a Lamia? What's a Lamia? Lamia-lamia-lamia-lamiaa~...

"Uguuu~!" I let out, before starting to run in a circle. "What's a Laamiaaa-" I cried, but I was cut off by the string of words that I first heard from my male companion. "Well a mythical creature," it said. I gasped out and echoed, "M-mythical?" I gulped, sudden interest silencing me. Sugar's getting to my head again. It's changing me! What am I, some kind of LPT that reacts to acids?

.. Hold on. What are LPTs, anyway? Meh, I'll look them up someday. Besides, I'm sure I'll remember them before the day's over. Anyway, what was Lamie here saying next? "Half women, half snake devoured children, and some other mythical blah. But last time I checked I'm not half a women or half snake, and I don't have the urge to chew on human flesh." But I already drifted off to eye-twitching when I heard the first and second halves. "Lamie's a woman?" I whispered in shock. "SNAKE DEVOURED CHILDREN?" I gasped in shock as well. "HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAA~" And all the while, all I could think of was, Sugar, sugarsugarsugarsugarsugaaarr.

I began to see two Lamies. Lamie one and Lamie two, haahaa. "Lamieee, how come you're named after a woman?" I asked, not really noticing that I was talking. I felt something at my shin, and I looked down to see Lamie poking me again. "Laa-haaa-haa-meeeee~ You poke-a-lot!" I cried out, rolling on the ground laughing for no funny reason at all.

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia listened to her weird reply to his answer, rolling around laughing cause he was named after a mythical creature. "You really need to lay off the sugar, especially if your gonna be that random your starting to scare me." Suddenly Lamia jumped at Xena, and start to yell. "RAWR im gonna eat you! Run well you can"

Lamia began to poke at her, and continue to rawr at her, in a very strange fashion. Anybody walking threw the forest would surely be weirded out at this sight, of Lamia poking at Xena, and making weird sounds at her would just be weird. Lamia stopped. "You know i never thought about why i was named what i am."

[Xena]

"You really need to lay off the sugar, especially if your gonna be that random your starting to scare me," I heard Lamie say over the giggling fit I was making. I was already starting to stand up, brushed by dirt, when a sudden Lamie leaped at me and yelled, "RAWR! I'm gonna eat you! Run well you can!" And coming with it was a series of pokes and 'rawr's. I can't help but be overwhelmed by the sounds and pokes, or it was just the sugar turning me alarmed, but I began to roll away from Lamie and, when I had already hit a bush, stood up and started to run around Lamie in a circle. "Woo! Woo-woo!" I spouted like a train as I closed in on my target, Lamie the one named after Lamie! He already stopped poking me when I already roved away from him.

"You know I never thought about why I was named what I am," I heard him say as I closed in an inner circle. "Well at least you know what you aarreee," I said as I completed one more revolution. "Where do you think they got Xena?" Then I tackled him. I tackled him cause he pokes, and if I'm going to call him like Poke-A-Lot, he could at least call me Takey. Hahaaahaaa~! "Nyuuu," I let out while I started to find a tickle in him. "You have a tickle, don'tcha Lamie?"

[†~Lamia~†]

OOC: x.x sorry on the shortness, but my brains not working.

Suddenly as Lamia moved away from Xena who he had just finished a furry of poking strikes on began to run in a circle making sounds like a train. Lamia was quickly re-confused by the Xena, first she began to run in circles then the next thing he knew Xena said "Well at least you know what you aarreee,"" then out of no were she tackled him and began to tickle him. Lamia began to uncontrollably and couldn't hear anything she said from his laughing covering up her voice.

"Hahahahahahaha... please...hahaha...stop...." Lamia tried to speak threw all of his laughter from her tickling him.

[Xena]

I'm having fun tickling him. Cause seriously, I never meet guys who just laugh and laugh for a change. They're always so serious, so damn calm. It's kinda annoying, but once you find someone who's not like that, unique in his own way, it'll feel better to know that in an ocean filled with identical fishes, one is vibrant enough to shine under the sun.

...

Fishes AND boys? I must be losing it, seriously, I can't help but laugh. I accompanied his sound of laughter as I found him funny in laughing and speaking at the same time, my hands weakening from the humour it had. Then finally I exclaimed, "Okay, okay~ Stop squirming already... Ahaahaa..." I ceased my tickling, sitting on my bottom and still looking at him, my eyes almost closing themselves as I grinned.

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia was confused if she had stopped because of his asking or because she had something more evil in-store for him. He was slightly sweating from the laughing causing an actual stain on his body. Lamia wiped his forehead as he began to turn to her direction. Just then Xena began to grin at him, he could tell by the changing of facial expressions.

"Hey, what are we gonna do now ?" Lamia asked Xena calmly but still catching his breath. Lamia still felt out of breath, slowly he stretched his arm out as if he was going to grab something, then 2 fingers and a thumb curled up almost as a fist, the right pointer finger extended out then Lamia poked Xena with his right pointer finger. That marked the end of his reining terror of pokes.
"Okay im done poking you for the day."

[Xena]

"Hey, what are we gonna do now?"

I continued smiling but shrugged slightly, thinking of something we could do now that my sugar rush was temporarily held at bay. Then I noticed movement before my eyes, and my grin reduced a bit, relaxing some of the seventeen muscles required to form a smile, to see Lamia poke me. I was about to go hyper again when he burst my bubble by saying, "Okay I'm done poking you for the day." I said a bit seriously, but with the tone of kidding around, "I'll have to warn you, you'll bring back my sugar rush if you poke me again." I stood up slightly, crouching down, balancing on my heels as I rocked back and forth.

"Wanna walk and talk?"

[†~Lamia~†]

Lamia was suddenly worried about the sugar rush happening again, Who wouldn't ? when Xena had that sugar rush most students would be sent into a mad panic, no one but Lamia could handle such insanity.
Suddenly Lamia began to stand up and then he lowered his hand to help Xena up.

"Shall we then ?" Lamia spoke well looking down and spoke in a rather strange fancy sounding voice. Lamia felt making a fool out of himself is a very unnecessary part of any good friendship, but none the less it makes it all the more fun. Lamia stood there until xena would either take it or stand up on her own.

[Xena]

"Shall we then?"

I looked up to see Lamia looking down on me, offering a hand to help me stand up from my crouching position. I raised a hand and took it, pulling myself up, but not neccessarily using his hand as my only help. I used more of the strength my legs had in them, so that I wouldn't be pulling Lamia down with my weight.

Upon standing straight, I let go of his hand and dusted myself, for rolling on the ground- or simply falling on it- really makes clothes dirty. After I was sure I was already tidied up, as tidy I could get with only using my hands, I took a step toward the direction of a dirt road, rocky but at least cleared of snagging branches and sturdy roots.

"We shall," I uttered, before starting to walk. "Let's go!"

[†~Lamia~†]

"Ladies first...." Lamia said in a joking voice. He just had to be oh so intelligent then he began to skip forward in advance towards the dirt road Xena was looking at. His skipping was a nightmare sight to anybody who believed men can't skip.

"Come on already!"
Lamia was already a good few skips ahead of her moving towards the road of dirt and rocks, he moved threw the grass like a vegetable to its prey. He still hadn't seen Xena move, She might have been Frighten'd by his skipping.

[Xena]

I heard him tease in a familiar saying, drawing my attention back to him, kicking loose pebbles under my halting shoes. I half-turned to see him skipping past me, skipping like how me and my friends used to skip in my previous school. Although, this time it's a lot much more weirder, since he's a guy and just seeing him like that...

It sent shivers down my spine.

I felt my knees almost buckle up under me, giving me a quick snap that I should lay off the swirl of memories in my head, or else I wouldn't last the day without rolling on the ground in a fit of giggles. I looked at him, half shocked, half amazed. A bit scared too, considering how sane he was when I met him.

I wonder if I did something that made a switch trigger in his mind? Then again, I pondered if it was just his natural reactions when in the forest.

The shade of the trees wrapped me in their shadow, sending another shiver down my spine, although this time because it was cold. I felt the blood drain from my face.

Then I heard his voice again, deep yet full of excitement. "Come on already," he urged a bit hurriedly. I felt the heat of my body warm my cheeks as I raised my hand to rub my pale face. "Coming, coming..." I murmured as I began to follow. I ran to catch up with him, since he already traveled quite a distance while I was standing there in my stupor.

I skipped alongside him, looking around while I did so, an especially risky task since one might never know where a root might burst from the ground and-

THUD.

I fell face-first to the earthen floor, my foot caught in a twirl of roots. I tried to get up, but it seemed the fall hit me everywhere, save my back. Having a hard time to raise myself, I focused on raising my head, my face, to at least give me back my ability to breathe, as the fall also knocked out the wind out of me.

I heard my elbow crack as I extended it. Softly, I began to moan as I feel bruises forming on my arms.

I hope my elbow just froze, like how my bones usually do, when I keep myself in a position for too long, rather than having actually a broken bone that would have to be mended like a bird with a busted wing.

In a cast.