[Elektra]

"Woah," Thalia said as Alarice caught her arm. "What is it?"  Thalia had been curious about Alarice's powers, but didn't want to make her tell.  She figured that Alarice would tell her when the time was right.  And now it was.  "Hey, what did you want to tell me?"

[Remedy]

"Well, you see, I have the power of telepacy, where I can read and transport thoughts. When I connect with someone's mind, my eyes begin to glow.  When Fire was in trouble with the dog catcher, I transported thoughts to the man's mind with a great mysterious ech, I might add, to make him run off.  The problem with me transporting thoughts is that it takes up about 5% f my energy per second, which is why I passed out before.  I just thought you needed to know in case it happened again, and-". Alarice stopped her remblings in md-sentence.  Her ear twitched.  
"And about Alarice's past..."
she heard Fire say to Zeul.  Before he could finish, she bent down, scooped up a handful of mud, and hurtled it tward the back of Fire's head.
SPLAT!!!

The entire back of Fire's head was covered in mud, and the only sound from him was a whimper and a mutter,   "Oh crap, she heard me!"
Alarice smiled, turning back to Thalia.  "As I was saying..." she continued.

{4.3}{4.3}

[Elektra]

Thalia almost doubled over laughing as that mud ball hit Fire's head.  She didn't know Alarice had it in her to do that.  "Hey, nice shot.  Anyway, I won't tell anyone, but does Fire know about it?"  Thalia knew almost immediately that Fire wouldn't know, but still felt that she had to ask.  Meanwhile, Zuel was busy watching Fire trying to clean the mud off of his head.  "Hey, why don't you go jump into a puddle and wash it off that way?"  Zuel wasn't trying to be funny, btu he still got a weird look from Fire as soon as he had said that.  As the group walked on, Thalia decided to ask if Alarice wanted to practice morphing again.  "Hey, so can you and I do that morphing lesson you had promised?"

[Remedy]

After giving Zeul that wierd look, Fire's face suddenly went pale.  He felt his face, trying to see if the makeup was still there.  Apparently, it wasn't.  Maybe it melted off while I was morphing.  Alarice did say I felt like I was burning,  he thought.  He said to Zeul, "Hey, dude.  Do I have anything on my face?"  While talking to Zeul, Alarice continued teaching Thalia.  "Empty your mind.  No emotion.  While holding this feeling, think about your form that you wish to turn into.  Concentrate.  Pretty soon, if you keep feeling no emotion, which means no confusion, no sadness, no curiosity, then you will find yourself morphing into the form you're thinking about.  Just concentrate, this is the hardest part."  Alarice said, watching Thalia.  Poor girl,  she thought.  Mood morphing must be so much harder for her, with female mood swings and all that.  I know it was for me.  While Zeul and Fire were talking, and Thalia was concentrating, Alarice decided to try something herself.  She closed her eyes, focusing on a nearby tree.  Trying to find it's living part, it's inner peace...  

BOOM!

It exploded, shattering into a million pieces.  Immeadiatly, Pickle broke the commection, gasping, once again, for air.  She didn't pass out this time, but Fire and Zeul nearly had heart attacks, and Thalia's concentration was now officially broken.
"We'd better keep moving..."  Alarice mummbled, pulling Thalia away from the frightened tourists that were picnicing nearby.

{4.4}{4.4}

[Elektra]

"Ah!"  Thalia yelped as the tree exploded.  She was almost there when something hard banged her on the head.  She knew that the tree hadn't exploded by accident.  Thalia turned to Alarice and knew that it had been her by the way her eyes were glowing faintly and how she was gasping for air.  "Alarice, you ok?"  Zuel came running up to her and fanned her off with a big leaf he had found from the tree that had just exploded.  "I wonder how that happened?  I mean, that just doesn't seem possible, at least not normally."  Zuel walked over to Fire as soon as Alarice could breathe regularly again, and asked, "So does Alarice have asthma or something?"  Thalia went back to focusing while Fire and Zuel were talking.  "Clear my mind, no emotions.  Nothing at all.  Just think of a...a...a Gyraptor.  Yeah, just think of a Gyraptor."  Soon, Thalia felt as if the world was actually disolving around her, and suddenly she found herself all feathery, and kinda tall.  "Hey, I did it!  Alarice, look!"  Thalia squawked.  

[Remedy]

"Uh, I don't think so... I mean, this happens occasionally, but..." Fire said to Zeul, still gasping for air himself.  It's always after something either exploses, or someone screams.  And...  it's... almost always...  when I'm... in trouble..." With that sudden realization, a whole new light opened up for Fire, and the scales for his liking of Thalia and Alarice were tipped even again.  All of a sudden, Thalia started getting really excited about something, and when he looked at her, he realized she was a Gyraptor.  He pulled Zeul away, not wanting to interrupt Thalia and Alarice's training session.

Alarice smiled at Thalia.  "Great job!  You learn very quickly."  Alarice observed.  When the boys were out of earshot, she pulled Thalia closer and said, "Yah, sorry about the tree...  That one was my bad...  Looks like I need more training myself."  She smiled, reallly hoping that Thalia wouldn't be mad about the flying splinters.
{5.0}{5.0}

[Elektra]

"Hey, don't worry about it.  That was actually kinda cool."  Thalia was wondering if they were ever going to find even a hint of a Mr.Wilson.  But meanwhile, she wanted to do something.  "Hey, how about we do something like, oh I don't know, just something.  It's getting kinda boring and we might as well have some fun while we're looking for a Mr.Wilson."  Up infront, Zuel was busy talking with Fire.  "So how long have you known Alarice?  Or are you two siblings or something?"  Zuel didn't really know what to say, and wished that another tree would blow up again or something to cover such an awkward moment of silence.

[Remedy]

"Oh!  That gives me an idea!" Alarice exclaimed.  "Do you have a form with wings?  You know, big ones?  I think that if we take the air view, above the clouds, we may have an advantage in our hunt.  Zeul and Fire can stay below in case they see anything, and, if your not used to it, maybe I could teach you a thing or two about flying." she grinned, eager to feel the wind in her face.  "So?"  She asked.

"Pickle and I?  No, we're not siblings.  Uh, she found me... somewhere... and trained me.  i was really little, andd I think she was, too.  It was about...  sixty, seventy years ago?  Maybe more... I was only twenty, then, and I looked like a todler." Fire's eyes seemed to dull a little, lost in his memories.  Just then he snaped back into conciousness, and he hit the deck.  Zeul seemed to give him this really wierd look, and Fire said, getting up, "Sorry.  I was expecting another headful of mud, since I practically told you almost how old Alarice was, even though I don't know for sure."  He heard a little ways back Alarice called, "You got lucky.  The ground over here's dry.  It's all I can do not to throw a rock."

{5.1}{5.1}

[Elektra]

"Yeah, that's a good idea.  I think that I might have two, but I'll go with garudor, since a battleheart flying around would probably worry a few people."  Truth be told, Thalia wanted to get off the ground a try again, especially before Alarice could find a rock to throw.  She began to focus on a solemn feeling inside of her, and she once again felt herself lifting off the ground.  "Alarice!  Alarice!  What do I now!"  Thalia felt herself getting scared and desperately hoped that Alarice would tell her what to do before she turned into a rattegan for being so scared...

            Meanwhile Zuel was once again talking with Fire, btu desperately wishing that he could do something besides talking.  He wished that for once he could shift like Thalia could.  But instead, he had to have alchemy.  "Besides, nobody even cares about alchemy anyway.  Now a days, everyone just goes and spends money to buy all their gold.  Complete wastes of money!"  Zuel knew what would happen if he got out of  control, but he couldn't help it now.  Suddenly, everything around within a one mile radius turned to solid gold. "Crap!  I am sooo going to be in trouble now."  Even the leaves on each tree beside him were gold, simply hanging there.

[Remedy]

Alarice smiled broadly, proud of Thalia, as she called,
"Focus!  Try to maintain that feeling of self-control, and don't flap your wings too much or you'll lose energy.  Flap once, wait until you're about to start decending, then flap again.  Once your high enough, catch the currents, and I'll be right behind you."  Taking a deep breath, Alarice ran directly to a tree, jumped up and halfway ran up it, then pushed back and did a backflip in the air as she morphed.  Just a habit, she explained to Thalia through telepacy.  'Small talk' that way didn't take up too much energy, so it was one of the small things that was managable during driving, flying, and swimming.  Meanwile, while focusing on the air, she had no idea quite what adventures were going on below...

"@#$%^  @#$(* ?!" in another 'language' or not, Fire had just said some pretty forbidden things.  "...Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude."  it was long and exaggerated, and Fire had simply gone mad.  One minute, Zeul was talking about alchemy, the next minute-  daaaaaaaaaaaamn.  He hugged Zeul, and then bent down to start scooping Golden dust into his pockets.  "Zeul.  ZeUl.  ZEUL.  Buddy..." Pofirio said, with a greedy glint coming to his eyes.

{5.2}{5.2}

[Elektra]

"Thanks." Thalia called to Alarice.  She was beginning to love the wind blowing threw her feathers, and blowing in her face, but as she looked down, she almost lost focus.  What she saw was horrible.  Zuel had let out his true power, and it was stronger than what he had ever done.  If anyone ever saw it, they would be shocked.  The whole forest, covered with gold.  Thalia had to warn Alarice, but she wasn't sure how until, bam, it hit her.  "It might not work, but I can try." she thought.  If Alarice could communicate telepathically than maybe she could at least tell her about what just happened down in the ground.  "Alarice!  Alarice!  Please, it's Zuel, he's, well, just look down."  she though as hard as she could.

        Meanwhile, down below the duo, Zuel realized what a major mistake he had made by doing this.  "Fire won't be able to control himself around all this, but I can't take it back now."  he thought angrily to himself.  "So what the H*** and I supposed to do!"

[Remedy]

Alarice looked down and nearly fainted.  It was true, she had been evesdropping in on Thalia's thoughts, but no time to worry about that.  If that was Zeul's doing, Zeul's power, than Fire was pretty much going to loose his sanity.  He had a history with gold, and for him, it was  as bad as a drug addiction.  "Thalia!" Alarice called against the wind.  "We have to land!  I'm going to be in a coma after this!"
As Alarice began to quickly decend, she morphed into a hollowheart.  She did not slow down as she got closer to the earth, instead, she sped up.  upon impact, a small crater like hole appeared in the golden ground.  Fire turned around, but before he could react, he was being pinned down by huge scaly claws.  Holding him still, Alarice's eye's began to glow with a deathy light, and Fire's eyes grew wide with fear.  All of a sudden, a change came in the perple picnicing around who were terribly surpried that their sandwiches had become solid gold.  Their eyes grew large with fear, and then they went blank.  Immeadiatly Alarice stopped, and before going into a full out coma, she morphed into her human form and said, "I erasded everyone's memory of the past ten minutes... except for you and Zeul.  I also convinced them... that when they rub their eyes and look around, they'll see everything as normal.  Explain to Zeul... and get Fire away from here.  Even if he doesn't see it, he can smell it... the gold..."  Then, she passed out on the still golden ground, aimlessly morphing into an Organic Chimerantula, which could be easily slipped inside a pocket so her Human form wouldn't have to get lugged around.
{5.3}{5.3}

[Elektra]

Zeul was basically frozen in shock.  "W-what just HAPPENED?!" He exclaimed, not quite sure what to do.  With shaky hands, he reached down and gently picked up Alarice and put her in one of his pants pockets.  Then he helped hoist Fire, who was only temporarily unconcess, and started to drag him out of this gold mine.  "She told you to explain, Thalia.  I'm freaking out here.  You'd better start explaining like NOW." Zuel said forcibly.  He wanted answers.
"Okay, well...". As she was explaining, they finally reached the area just outside of where the gold stopped.  Laying Fire against a tree that was split down the middle (half gold, half wood), she sat down and finished it up.  "...and that's what happened." Just then, her face paled, and she said, "Oh My Gosh.  Alarice.  Did we leave her?!"
"Calm down.  I've got her." he said, gently pulling her out of his pocket.  It was really wierd, having someone who you just learned more about and will never look at the same again in your pocket.    Thalia let out a deep sigh.  "Now what do we do?" she asked, laying down in the grass waiting for something else to happen.

[Remedy]

A few minutes after Thalia had lay down, Fire began to stir.  He opened his eyes and looked around.  Everything seemed normal.  "What happened?  Where's Alarice?  How long was I out?" Zeul and Thalia seemed to spring to action.  It would seem as if they'd been sitting there for hours instead of minutes.  "Like I said, where's Alarice?" He said again, kinda freaking out.

Meanwhile, Alarice had been in Zeul's hand.  He was just sitting there staring at her, not quite sure what to do.  While she was sleeping, her dreams seemed to lead her into different moods.  One of the main problems of mood shifting.  She had ALMOST mastered the sleeping part, but not quite.
She started twitching, and before anything could be done, she was a Kuhna again, and she almost tipped Zeul over.  Pofirio just stood there staring, not quite knowing what to say.  Answers would most likely come soon.    

{5.4}{5.4}

[Elektra]

"Um, she's fine, I think... She just... uh... passed out again.  And so did you.  It was really wierd, but, uh, I think it was because you tried to morph or something and something went wrong or something."  After hearing Zeul's lame excuse, Thalia slapped herself, wiping her hand down her face to show how idiotic she thought that comment really was.  But it seemed to work.  Fire nodded, and Thalia said "Come on, uh, Zeul, if you can keep hold of Alarice, then we should continue on the hunt.  What do you two think?"  Zeul agreed, and pickled Alarice back up, careful not to singe his clothes with the green fire on her tail.