[Shieba]

Lelouch, the little Fellox-prince of Pandovia, was lost. Not that he was really worried, because he never was, but still - he had no idea where his father or Dio were.

When the Felloxes had heard about a big festival taking place, Lelouch had wanted to check it out and Dio had teleported them all to Lamenolai, even though the Dracon had been worried to expose his king and prince to such a crowd. Lelouch, being the curious and energetic child that he was, had at once started to look around. His father had told him to stay close, of course, but Lelouch had been eagerly looking for an ice-cream stand (clearly forgetting that he couldn't eat ice-cream in his Fellox-form) and had ended up alone all of sudden.

However, Lelouch, confident as usual, wasn't upset. Clearly, all the strangers here would help him because he was cute and adorable. Maybe they would even give him huggies and he'd make new friends! They were probably just not looking at him yet because he was so small (and therefore even more cute). Still, maybe his father and Dio were still close? "Daddy? Dio?" Lelouch looked around, trying to peek past all the legs of the humans. "I'm here and all alone! Where are you?!"

[ToxicShadow]

"Thank you, mister!"

A young girl spoke, dipping her head slightly and making her curls bounce as she thanked one of the venders as he handed over her purchase. Stick of cotton candy in hand, Mania shifted quickly on her heels. Her mother and brother were no where in sight, but that wasn't too much of a problem. She was certain that they were just barely out of sight, since she had told them that she was getting cotton candy. Of course, she had told her mother that she was going with her sibling, but she had been so excited that she had forgotten to ask him to go with her.

Not in the least bit discouraged or worried, the little bunny ears atop her head began to wiggle, listening closely to the sounds all around her. With hearing that was better than that of most humans, she would find them in no time! Instead of their voices, though, she heard the voice of another child! They were calling out for their father, too.

Immediately, she ran toward the voice crying out, determined to help, just like Mommy helped people. "Excuse me? Is someone lost?" She called out in return, closing the space between her and where she thought she heard the voice coming from as she dodged around the feet of adults.

[GrayGriffin]

Truce knew his sister didn't mean to leave him behind, but it tended to happen when most of your family members could fly and you couldn't. While he was hopeful that she would notice and come back for him, he also knew it was also pretty hard to see him through the crowd. Which was why he hadn't decided to stay put and wait for them to find him. At least he had Hex with him. The little Velix was just as lost as he was, though, and its sensors weren't working well in this crowd.

However, he heard someone calling for their own daddy, and forgot about his own search almost immediately. Someone else was lost? He should go help them!

"Come on, Hex!" he called, running off. "We've got someone to help!"

"It is unlikely that we can offer assistance in this matter. We do not know where our family is. We do not know where the other person's family is."

"But we can look together, right?" Hex paused.

"Affirmative."

"Hey! Don't worry! Help is on the way!" called Truce, weaving through the crowd.

[39, 12]

[Shieba]

"Hellooooo there~?" Lelouch thought he had heard voices. None had sounded like the adults he was looking for, but that didn't matter - especially when the first person he saw coming towards him was a girl with bunny-ears. "Wooooow!" Lelouch immediately rushed over. "Hello girl! I'm lost!" With bright eyes, Lelouch looked at the girl. "You have bunny-ears! Just like my friend Bunny! She has bunny-ears, too, but also wears a hat! I love bunnies a lot!" Clearly, Lelouch had, for the moment, all forgotten about being lost, now talking about his favourite topic. "I'm Lelouch and I'm cute! Do you want to hug me? I'd love to hug you because I love huggies and cuddles and also bunnies and girls!"

However, suddenly there was someone else shouting! Lelouch beamed in that direction as well when more help came towards him. "Helloooo there~! Yaaay, help! And huggies for more people!" Beaming, he waited for even more people to maybe give him hugs. One could never have enough huggies, after all!

[OOC: Sorry my reply towards you is so short, Gray. I couldn't really make out from your post if Truce is in a human form or not, so I didn't really know how to phrase things. ^^;]

[ToxicShadow]

Surprised that her efforts had worked, and even more surprised when the boy she was looking for was in the form of a Fellox, Mania smiled brightly, though she also giggled when he simply called her 'girl'. "Hello! I'm Mania. If you're lost, I think I can help." She announced, quite proudly, although her ears perked right up at his next statement. "You know Bunny? She's my mother!" She hadn't known that her mother had friends that were young, too. Maybe she was keeping them all to herself! "If she knows you, then everything will be all right," she said with a nod. She was about to answer his request for hugs, when there was another voice, someone else approaching them.

"Hello! Don't tell me that you're lost, too!" Mania was beginning to wonder how well the adults at this festival were at watching their children. Of course, her getting lost was her own fault, but she was certain her mother would be coming to get her soon now that she hadn't already come back. If that happened, then maybe they could help everyone. Either way, at least she would be able to make some friends closer to her own age.

[Shieba]

Lelouch was so excited by now that, while waiting for the two others who had called out to arrive, he couldn't stand still anymore and hopped up and down a bit. "Bunny is your Mommy?! That's awesome! I introduced her to my Daddy some time ago because I wanted her to be my Mommy as well but Daddy said he just wanted to be friends with her." Lelouch still wasn't over that; having a mother with bunny-ears would have been the greatest thing ever, after all. "And when Bunny came over she also had Tak with her! He's soooo cute! Just like my bunnies, but my bunnies don't talk! And then I went to your house with Dio and Daddy and Bunny had turned into a bunny and was all fluffy and cute!" It seemed pretty impossible for Lelouch to stop talking right now because clearly, Mania was one of the most amazing girls ever if she was related to Bunny. "Where's Bunny?", he then asked. "I want to cuddle with her as well and since she's not as small as me, she can probably see Daddy and Dio better!" Finally making a pause in talking after that, he then suddenly stepped a bit closer to Mania and, with wide eyes, looked at her when he thought of something. "Can you turn into a bunny as well?!"

[ToxicShadow]

The young girl nodded several more times as Lelouch explained how he knew his mother, it making perfect sense to her. Even Tak had met them, so they were definitely talking about the same Bunny. Then again, even at her young age, Mania had come to realize that human-like creatures with bunny ears weren't exactly very common. She only knew of herself and her two family members, and Svex and Carlotta when they transformed, but they weren't very human-like then. "Momma should be over there!"  she declared, pointing in the general direction that she had come from when she ventured off to get cotton candy. Pinpointing Bunny again wouldn't  be super easy, since she was out of sight, but it would probably be a lot easier to find her than Lelouch's missing parents. "Yes, when we find her, she can help find your daddy. Especially if she already knows him!" It should be really easy then. When the Fellox leaned in closely, she laughed, smiling in an excited way. "Of course I can turn into a bunny.  So can my brother! But I have something my mother doesn't!" Just then, she spun around, pulling her curls in front of her to show a pair of small feathery wings on her back, which fluttered when revealed. "They're from my daddy, so I've been told, though I've never met him." Then she turned back to face him. "If I can get off the ground, I should be able to find my mother, and she can help us."

[Shieba]

Lelouch looked where Mania pointed, but as expected, he couldn't really see anything besides lots of adults. "I hope Bunny doesn't worry that you're gone", he said. "I remember she said she turned into a bunny in an emergency! What if she's so worried she turns into a bunny now and someone steps on her!?" The thought was clearly horrifying to Lelouch. A lot of people had already bumped into him, after all, since he was so small, so he was rather worried what could happen to a bunny in the crowd. He beamed when Mania insisted that Bunny could find his father and Dio, though. "Can she find them by sniffing the ground like bunnies do?" he asked, curious. "I love it when bunnies do that, it looks so cute!"

When Mania told him she could turn into a bunny, Lelouch beamed all excitedly, almost starting to hop up and down again - especially when she showed him her wings. "Wooooow! That's amaaaazing! The bunnies here in this world all have these wings! In my world, they don't! But I have never seen a bunny fly before!" He paused. "Or can you fly with them even as a human?" Since the wings were small, Lelouch was unsure if Mania meant to fly as a human or a bunny. "If you have to turn into a bunny for flying, you can also sit on my back so no one steps on you!" Clearly, Lelouch totally wanted Mania to turn into a bunny.

[GrayGriffin]

[Truce is in pet form. I always make it explicit if my characters are in human form.]

"I'm not lost! My sisters and brothers are!" replied Truce after listening to the conversation between the other two children for a while. He paused. "Okay, maybe I'm lost from their point of view. But they can fly, so they'll probably find me really fast! And I wanted to help you so I came over here!"

When Mania mentioned her wings, his eyes lit up. "You can fly? That's great! That means you can fly up and look for our families!" He paused again. "Oh, right, I forgot to introduce myself! I'm Truce, and this is Hex!"

"Greetings," said the robot.

[40, 13]

[Shieba]

Lelouch curiously eyed both Truce and Hey. Especially the Velix was a being that Lelouch had never seen before. Truce wasn't from a species known to Lelouch, who normally only was in Whisper Forest when he was in Evelon, either, so of course, the little Fellox was interested. "I'm Lelouch and I'm cute!" he repeated cheerfully and then looked at the little Velix again. "You are even smaller than me! That's amaaaaaazing! I bet you get lots of huggies like that! How old are you? I think I was as small as you once, but I can't really remember!"

Lelouch beamed at all other children. "All your families are soooo awesome! Bunny is great! And having brothers and sisters who can fly sounds amazing as well!" He was a bit jealous. Well, his Daddy was a king and that was really awesome as well, but he couldn't turn into a bunny or fly.

[ToxicShadow]

Mania, having spent her time nibbling on her cotton candy when others were speaking, dipped her head slightly when the Shartile introduced itself and its companion. "Truce and Hex," she repeated, testing them out for herself. "I'm Mania. And, yes, we can look for your family, too!" The girl was certain that, as soon as they found her own mother, that they would be able to help return the others to their own families. Bunny wouldn't leave any child unattended if she found one that was lost. She may have fought monsters for a living, but that didn't mean that she wasn't kind. Those with a good nature were taken in by her, after all.

"I can fly both as I am and as a bunny, although my wings haven't grown in all the way as I am now," she clarified for Lelouch. "If you want to see me as a bunny, though, I can transform and show you. If you promise to let me ride on your back to travel. I would probably get squished, otherwise." The young Fellox was small, but large enough that he at least didn't have to fear of being squashed underfoot.

[Shieba]

Lelouch, of course, was beyond excited when Mania so readily agreed to become a bunny. "Of course I want to see you as a bunny! I want to watch your nose move up and down and up and down and your long ears and fluffy tail! And I want to pet you and then you can ride on my back and we'll find you some hay and carrots!" Lelouch had seemingly forgotten all about the fact that Mania was, like bunny, probably not interested in carrots and hay. "I have a bunny who really likes riding on my back, so it's probably fun! Do you want to climb up before you turn into a bunny? It's probably easier than doing it when you are small then!" He also beamed at Hex and Truce. "Do you love bunnies as well? I have two-hundred-and-seventy-six bunnies!" He struggled with the huge number, clearly not being able to count that far and only repeating what he had been told.

[GrayGriffin]

Truce tilted his head to one side. "I actually don't know how old I am. And well...actually, wings are kind of hard to normal-hug with, so I get wing-hugs instead! And I can always hug Hex!" As if to prove it, he reached over and wrapped one short arm around the Velix, which squawked in surprise but accepted the indignity.

After being asked about bunnies, the Shartile paused. "Well...I don't have any bunnies. But Hex can change shape, kind of! He used to be a radio, but then Gray did this-" Here he threw his claws out and concentrated, pointing them as if he was firing some kind of laser, "-and he turned into that! So maybe he can change into a bunny!"

"I cannot. This is the shape I was given by my animation, and my only shape."

"Oh." Truce looked disappointed.

[41, 14]

[Shieba]

Lelouch was a bit confused that someone couldn't know their age - because celebrating birthdays got you toys, after all - but that made it even more intriguing. He looked at Hex again. "You talk like an adult! But you're so small! Does that mean you don't grow anymore and stay so small?! What's your secret?! I wanna stay small, too!"

Then, he titled his head. He had no clue what a 'radio' was, since it was clearly nothing he had in his home world. "I can only change into a Fellox! Well, it just happens! In my home, I'm just a human! But when I come to Evelon, I suddenly change into a Fellox! It's odd!" He still sounded completely cheerful and unbothered by it, though.

"You should get bunnies", he then pointed out. "Bunnies are amaaaaaazing! They're the cutest animals ever! I'm sure Mania agrees, since she is a bunny! I wish I would be a bunny as well!"

[GrayGriffin]

Truce frowned. He knew enough to know that his story was probably not appropriate for the little Fellox. He was obviously innocent about the full implications of what had happened in the war. So, instead, he focused on the other things he had said.

"You come from another world?" he asked. "What's it like? Are there animals like in this place over there? Is it a place with lots of bunnies? Is that why you like them so much?"

[42, 15]