Haxored.

[kanai]

Of course it was nonsense... Idle, piddling thoughts about demonic children slaying much elder and more generously endowed Tsumes were foolish. Precaution around hatchlings couldn't possibly yield any fruit, and the vague idea of killer babies is worthy of a joke.

Pixel shakes off any insecurities she's been suffering from around this strange but somehow endearing youth, resettling her wings to soothe her spirits.

"I like plants," she comments with an abashed grin. Not many people liked plants... "We have a lot growing in a big garden back at our second realm."

She ponders Rove's question briefly, than wags her tail a little with excitement. Although she was older, her inner child had never quite grown up..

"Twenty's good!" the Air replies, then skitters off beneath the underbrush to find a suitable hiding spot, trying not to think of any terrible, bloody nightmares as she goes...

~

After Tek finishes, Jam has his eyebrow rather rudely quirked. He wondered if Jashael was just as weird as her mate, but he has some tact and doesn't ask.

"You alright? I know someone who might be able to fix that sparking problem you have," the huge Light offers, peering at the Hacker Mix from his sedentary position. He really is rather big and is close to being head-to-head with Teklon, even from the ground.

"Pixel isn't mine, but I take care of her like she is," he says. There's an undertone of warning in his voice; he's only being protective, but Jam is the sort of Tsume who has trouble isolating caring from threatening. "She and Zhang...are my family."

Any trace of darkness evaporates from Jam's voice whenever "I DJ with the Fire" comes on, and he even ^__^'s, claws tapping out the beat.

[Thalron]

This Pixel was very fun, she hoped that she wouldn't go away like the others.... The others always went away, leaving gross remains for scavengers to find, Maybe pixel would last though... That heart condition could be troublesome though.

"Umm... One! two, three, four, five..." she started counting, closing her eyes and rolling onto her back so that if her eyes were open or she was peeking she would only see the trees and sky.

"Six, seven... How far do you think you will go?... nine..." The images were not leaving, her alone and they were getting worse... claws scraping out these words on cold stone, somewhere close... it felt close anyways...

Was it getting colder?

~

How was he? a qeury of his condition, well... He was not good, not good at all. But even if he had the resources to realize it he wouldn't dare ask for help because it was contagious, atleast to those who might try and take a peek in his head.

He swayed his head slightly as the music went on, he liked music :D it was rather odd how he was singing it, and all the other sounds involved aswell, but not the weirdest thing jam has probably seen, as the song finished he shuddered, his head and shoulders spasming slightly as he tried to regain his normal voice again...

"Zhang he, H-h-he is my friend, S-s-s-s..." his voice skipped, and repeated at the end to the point where he just had to stop... Pausing for afew moments before trying again "Pixel, jam, zhang... Friend..." his eyes were swirling again, but not in such a comical manner anymore... He seemed sick, it looked like he could barely stand... "Bzzt! Find, found seek hide run destroy listen see blind deaf die gone stop alone together. Bzrraack." A large arc of green electricity jumped off his back and between his blade-like ears causing him to jump, then fall down onto his rump with a startled look, his speech... It actually sounded like what one would expect his to sound like, no pausing or skipping or metallic undertones, and it seemed to have a purpose but it didn't look like he knew what it was anymore.

[kanai]

The pint-sized female grins, shuffling through some particularly thick bushes with her nose tingling against the air. Even though she was at play, she had to be mindful of the dangers in Chaos Hills, especially in its more verdant areas. Something inside her told her that she couldn't afford to get too excited.

The scent of musky, summer-baked leaves is fresh in her nasal cavity, but she gradually begins to smell something else... It's hot, quick, and frightening. Pixel thinks she hears something drip, like sluggish water out of a sink faucet, but the smell overshadows its significance. She's smelling blood, but the realization hasn't hit her yet.

A new picture flashes in her head, and the sound of metallic talons shrieking against steel yells in her ears. It's cold now. A chill creeps up her limbs as she slows her pace. Rovea's voice is fading, and she's getting farther away... She had been looking for a tree with a hole in it, somewhere she used to sleep whenever she didn't know Jam, but now she's frightened and confused.

Was something injured?

~

Jam 's and stops tapping his claws whenever Teklon starts singing along. He's about to say something in response to that, but he stops whenever the electricity flows over the Hacker's spine in a great, winding spark.

"Wha..." the Light murmmurs, again cut off by Tek's wild, rambling phrases. He doesn't like where this is going, and his rounded, tiger ears prick nervously. Maybe this Tsume was suffering from some kind of programming error? Whatever it was, it didn't sound good at all. In fact, if Tek wasn't so...ditzy...he guessed, Jam would think this dragon to be evil.

"What are you talking about?" he growls suddenly, frustrated. He's not expecting an answer, but it didn't hurt to ask.

[Thalron]

"..Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..." Not much more time was left.. "Eighteen... nineteen... twenty... Times up" She hopped up and looked around, Pixel was no where to be seen... Luckily she had put a trace onto the tsume when they 'shook' hands. She spared Jam and Tek a glance before vanishing, fading out of sight as if she had not been there in the first place.

what was that? something rustling in the trees... "ready or not..." This last set of images was by far the worst, bits of a creature were visible, entrails and blood scattered at the edge of the vision... Then there was something else, far too familiar to the stunted tsume, A wing... A blue wing detached from it's owner and laying beside the bloody words, but before the image could fully set in it was disrupted by the rustling sound again, but this time... closer...

~

Teklon looks at jam with a sort of o_o? look on his face before suddenly breaking out in one of those crazy hacker grins, The one they usually use just before starting a game or something that they know you have no chance of winning against them. "Zhang He is good at DDR, he set the record in chaos hills :D"

...Ok, well that had nothing to do with the question but he thought it did, he was just talking about Zhang right?

"I wonder if shoes taste like chicken, or would it be chicken tasting like shoes? cause I'v only tried one and don't know what the other is like." well, atleast his voice wasn't skipping, although it did sound synthysized.... and he was just rambling off nonsense to the other tsume.

"Hay.,,, ware |)1d |20\/e and singular dot of colour go?" well, atleast he seemed cheerful, and oblivious rather than evil or anything, and he didn't seem sick anymore... atleast not physically XD;;

[kanai]

The images will her heart into a fluttering, downward spiral. The organ feels like it's about to burst without her chest; burning like a rocket, kicking like a dying rabbit. "R...Rovea...?" Pixel questions softly, now truly afraid. Her small limbs twitch on their own, shaking. The world seems much brighter and more vivid when she's terrified; everything, including color, is magnified to a painful level.

The dark-pointed feathers in her tail spread a little, and she ducks into her shoulders. She's nearly crying from fear, at the point where terror is running rampant throughout her body. The tree...the tree, she's got to find the tree... Maybe it'll keep her safe from whatever it is that's producing these disturbing visions.

The Air finds it after some time of stumbling and clutching absently at her heart, and struggles to pull herself into it. She lands on some leaves, crouching down into the dark of tree's hollow...

~

A smirk that's unsettling appears on the Light's features at the mention of Zhang... "Haha, I always knew he was more flexible than he let on," Jam observes, the smirk curling into something a little villainous as he shows some teeth. Well, hopefully no-one was reading his mind. \D

Tek's next comment wipes that evil-looking grin off his face, though. Shoes? And chicken?

"Uh...to be honest," he says, "I've never tasted either. I'd hope you ate the chicken and not the shoes... Why would you want to eat those?" Again, he's not really expecting an answer. 9_9;

"R...l..." the Light says, struggling to translate the Hacker's peculiar speech patterns. "Singlular dot of color" is easy enough, or so he thinks. "Pixel's blue and white," he corrects, sounding like a passionate father as he turns to the spot he last saw his adopted daughter and Tek's...

"I don't know," he replies, getting up onto all fours again. Jam calls Pixel's name twice, and when he receives no reply, he looks back at Teklon. "We'd better go looking for them. Something might have happened..."

[Thalron]

She had been right, Pixel would not last long with that heart of hers... Which was too bad, she liked taking her time, maybe... She would finish this quickly, then save her for later, that sounded like a good plan.

There was no answer to Pixels call, and the images did seem to halt, atleast for a moment... "Can't run anymore." They were back, flashing in and out of her vision before fading away, something was coming...

There was a sound, like many slithering vines or snakes, scritching through the leaves as they slowly neared the hollow of the tree unseen for several moments, the outside darkening as they approached, unnaturally... They stopped, just before where they could be seen, as if getting ready to spring out at any moment on the, rather suspecting tsume.

~

"Come on Fhqwhgads!~" was his reply to pretty much everything the other had said, simply starting a random song, although he did seem to get the idea to go look for them... As he begins to moonwalk backwards in the direction they were last seen, while playing the song...

Tek was definitely an odd one, amusing but... He could probably become annoying after alittle while if he didn't have some, simple menial task to perform such as playing music, And was more likely to attempt to wear the VCR as a hat than to absorb it or take it apart.

[kanai]

Instead of getting cold from fear, Pixel's actually very, very warm. A stale, slimy sweat has begun to coat her brow, and her breath seems to freeze on her tongue, making it dry. The panic is strangling her, and her breath is hard and squeaking. There's something out there, sneaking closer through the dead underbrush, making her lose her composure. It wasn't good, because...because...

Her heart is beating, and it gradually begins to ache from overstraining. The flow of blood has been amplified to very high levels, and it's made her body temperature rise to highly uncomfortable measures. The Air tries to think of Jam and fonder memories, so to calm the burning in her chest, but all she can dwell on is what might be out there, knowing that it must be somehow responsible for the strange images she was receiving just seconds ago.

She only hoped Rovea hadn't been taken by it, unless...

Pixel blinks, and the connection between these gruesome visions and the Mix female becomes more reasonable to her. It makes sense to one so unstable, but now she stops breathing altogether. The truth was out there. It couldn't possibly...could it...? Before she can make any more speculations, the Air begins to slip into the realm of unconsciousness.

~

The big Light's done quirking brows and being sordid over Teklon's overall weirdness, and he sets off without further delay. He'd heard things, rumors maybe, about Hackers being infected by a strange Virus... The Virus had been a subject of conversation long, long ago for him. He had been ready to go and fight it, but in the end, hadn't gone. If something had happened to him, he didn't know how Pixel would be able to fend for herself. She would always, always need someone to protect her. Jam could care little for those outside his family...or so he liked to think.

He overtakes Teklon in a split-second, sniffing the air busilly for his daughter's signature. "They couldn't have gotten far," he says to Tek, patrolling the immediate area like a bloodhound before he selects a direction to go in, and quickly follows through some trampled greenery. He'd be upon the tree Rovea was(?) probably counting at in a few seconds, and after that it wouldn't take much longer for him to find Pixel's hiding spot.

[Thalron]

There was a pause, had it ended so quickly? Then the breath stopped... "Eeek! Found you-... Pixel?" Rovea hopped into the tree in a rather cute attempt to startle the air that she had been playing (or toying) with, but found her in... Well, less than stable conditions, But this was round one! Pixel had to at least last to the second one but... She was already turning icky like the other ones had...

"Jam! We're in a small tree thingy... Umm... Pixel is all slimy and icky and umm... not good? Imma try ressicate-er...ing? her!" the squeaky voice blasted in the large males ears all of the sudden, as if he were wearing his head phones and had the volume turned up too high, it leveled out pretty quickly but still was rather nerve wracking.

Then her attention went back to the air... she hadn't had practice with actually helping anyone but she knew the basic principals of it... Like she shouldn't be that hot, that was remedied fast enough as two chord like wires extended from her tiny hand and attached themselves to the others skin... Then there was the breathing and heart rate, those were difficult, but she had a pacemaker once, one of her friends 'gave' it to her to study so she mimicked that to try and bring the heartbeat down to normal. but she had no idea about the lungs so just left that alone and hoped they worked on their own.

~

"Di|) yo-oo-ou he-e-ear that?" Teklon mumbled, falling out of his song and awkward walking styles, It took a lot to grab his attention but he rarely let the really important things slip by and something seemed off to him, Rovea... What was it that he had to remember about her... Or maybe he was thinking of something else. "J-jam? I think..." Ka-click "I think that we..." Bzzzt "Do you ever have nightmare-" BZZcrack "I did in the day-" Bzzt "Rovea..." he stopped talking and his eyes began swirling again as he took a step sideways, then fell over and managed to continue through with it and roll back up onto his feet.. Walking barely afew steps further before hitting a tree and falling back down...

[kanai]

Pixel's eyes are wide open, but they're out of focus and watering faintly at the edges. Although she's in a dead faint, the Air is still staring eerilly forward, as if she is expecting Rovea to find her. Her body is completely motionless otherwise, and her wings drape clumsilly over her ribs in unnatural positions. Her mouth is open just a little.

In the dark, she almost looks as if she's been shot and killed by a hunter. Like a prized doe, maybe.

The Mix's wires attach with her flesh, regulating both bloodflow and heartbeat. Slow and shy, her heart begins pulsing again, and the blood rushes through her veins at a more controlled speed. The Air is still unconscious, though. It might take her a little while more to come around.

~

The high-pitched chirp of that little Mix nearly gives Jam a heart-attack of his own, and he jumps with the loud transmition. The information Rovea gives him makes his blood run cold, and his eyes narrow into enraged slits. Something inside his head giggles at and mocks him, and his claws spread, clenching mounds of dirt and plants tightly.

"I heard it," he says thinly, on the edge himself. Something wasn't quite right here. He smelled fear that was not his own, a straight line of it that became more intense as he continued down its path. He takes one last look at the swirly-eyed Teklon, momentarilly disgusted.

"Sometimes..."
Nightmares...Rovea...
"I have nightmares."
Rovea. In the day.
"This is not a nightmare. It's real. I have to accept that."

There is brief suspicion, but it doesn't become any more than that. He would ask Pixel about it later; ask her why she had her panic attack when she could support herself. She was still in danger, and Jam hurries to the tree in question, now able to see Rovea peeking into its hollows.

[Thalron]

Hmm... Pixel was having suspicions about her? well... Maybe there was a monster out there? It usually did not take much to shift the blame off of herself since really, who would suspect a child of such an act... Especially if that child had gone through the trouble of saving your life.

But it needed to be more than word of mouth, Some cuts would help, and an unusual scent.
Sccrrcchhh... afew small cuts appeared on her, with one large gash in her side, as if the flesh had simply seperated on it's own volition to form very realistic claw marks. and then there was the smell which became barely obvious. It smelled like a tsume, but had a lingering earthworm-ish scent. The scent started near the entrance of the tree and led off away from it in the opposite direction of the two which approached them.

"Jam-Jam!" Rovea turned away from pixel and hopped out towards the large male, the wires disconnecting with a Sckrishckt noise, leaving two smallish red pockmarks on the airs skin, they had withdrawn into the small mixes arm before jam would have been able to see them. "There was a big scary thingy! And... and..." she stopped mid hop and tripped landing with a light whumph... A slight whimper/murmur escaping her mouth as the pain set in from her newly acquired wounds. Of course she had to act like she didn't like it... But she did not smell afraid, in the least.

~

Teklon just lays there staring at the sky/treetops an occasional leaf or twig falling and landing on his face or eye... But he didn't seem to notice, yup... Definitely needs work and judging by his acting it would probably be easier to come up with a list of whats not wrong with him than what is.

[kanai]

Jam's powerful haunches ripple with apprehension as metallic scents assault his nasal cavity: bitter terror and the strange, singular smell of fresh blood. The second makes his skin frigid with dread, and a little tongue of hope, shining like a candle flame, lights up in the darkness of his mind. It doesn't do much to warm him, and his eyes dart about for any concealed threats. No hidden shadows, no glowing eyes, but there was the telltale scent of another here, one whom he was not familar with.

The mysterious Tsume's earthy, moist smell sickens him. His stomach writhes, and he makes a low, huffing sound in his throat, like a lioness calling to her cubs. By now, Pixel's eyes are just sharpening... The bleary backdrop of black, gummy wood comes into view, but she is loathe to move. The pleasant squeaking of her young companion can be heard from outside the tree, and the Air can taste Rovea's blood in the air. Two pricks of red stand out against her own white pigmentation, and they don't even sting. Rovea's doctoring was precise, professional, and faultless.

"Are you alright?" the Light asks Rovea hurriedly when she takes a tumble. "Is Pixel okay? Did she faint?"

"Teklon! Come quickly, your daughter's hurt!" he calls behind him, pondering the likelihood of the Hacker even coming to help... Well, he had to take care of his brood first. She was more likely to be hurt, anyways...

Jam's wings spread, casting a quick shadow over Rovea as he strides past her, looking into the tree with pained doggedness. "Pixel...? Answer me, are you okay?"

The Air lies very still, marvelling at her own breathing. She was alive. The foul smell of deep old dirt reaches her, and she skitters out of the tree's hollow in a flurry. She didn't want to be in the dark anymore; she couldn't stand staying there any longer. "Jam! It was outside, I..." she cries, clinging to his chest. Not quite accustommed to being embraced, the Light tenses with surprise and then relaxes, his wings slowly falling back down to his sides.

"It's alright, I think it's gone," he says, turning around to tend to the other hatchling, "Do you need healing, or do you want me to do it?"

Pixel calms down and hops off her foster parent, padding over to her "playmate." She seems to have forgotten everything for the moment... Heart-attacks could be very detrimental to one's memory, but in time, lost memories could return. "Rovea, are you okay? It hurt you..."

[Thalron]

Rovea shuddered as she pulled herself back up, looking over as jam passed her by to check on Pixel, brushing herself off alittle and making little eeping noises as she brushed against one of the cuts. "Erm... The slithery thing made Pix all icky... But I fixed it! ^_^" she says happily as jam and pixel are reunited with eachother... It gave her a odd feeling she couldn't place... So she shrugged it off.

Teklon jumped up, hit the tree again... spun around, fell over got back up and walked in the wrong direction afew feet, turned back and barely missed the tree... Managing to arrive near Rovea, "Error, error, memory transitive action file missing." he said in a buzzing voice while simply staring at the ground afew feet behind rovea.

When asked if she needed healing she nodded, prodding one of the wounds gingerly "Err... could you help? I'm not good with Band-aids...Ooh but I scared it off like this!" she says with the excitement of a kid showing off some new toy, extending her hand out towards a bush... Nothing appears to happen then all of the sudden a ball of pulsating purple/black energy shoots out and appears to draw out then destroy the life from the plant leaving a strangely twisted mass of dead plant matter in it's place...

Not many hatchlings could shoot bolts of magic from their hands, especially not ones that would work against monsters or other tsumes.

[kanai]

Relief is more than noticeable in the Light's troubled features, which seem a little more tired and more grim than before. Each time something happened to Pixel, his energy felt sucked out of his bones, leaving him limp and just plain exhausted. "Thank you for healing her," he says heavilly, his suspicions entirely forgotten. She was just a sweet, bubbly little Hacker Mix... She wasn't scared, because...well, Hackers were weird. Very, very weird.

With a barely audible sigh, Jam folds his forelegs in on themselves and sits down, keeping his wings extended around Pixel slightly. "What did it look like?" the Air queries curiously, visually inspecting the seriousness of Rovea's wounds with concerned eyes. She's skeptical of the child's ability to fight off a full-grown Tsume, but all those doubts are vaporized with that unlucky plant whenever the Mix's energy blast scorches its target to ashes.

Pixel 's and Jam immitates her goggle-eyed gaping, shaking himself out of it more quickly than the Air does. "Well...I guess anyone would be scared off if they had that to contend with," he says, dismissing a small whisper of worry in the back of his head. Jam takes a claw, which has begun to glow with some bright, liquidy substance, and places it on the largest of Rovea's wounds. His eyes clothes with concentration, and the liquid drips off his claw into the wounds, which would begin to patch up once they came into contact with it.

"It might itch a little bit," Pixel informs the Mix with a smile, "But you'll feel better once it's done." She looks Tek's way and ^^;'s, waving a paw in the malfunctioning Hacker's direction. She didn't think their attacker would be coming back now, so they were safe. ...For the moment.

[Thalron]

Rovea smiled widely, it was sort of nice to get attention from things especially things she considered friends, she still felt that weird feeling that seemed kind of alien to her. Unfortunately things she didn't understand were either dissected or ignored. "Pix is my friend, I'll always heal her, or you if I can ^_^" again that odd oo-ee-oo sound >.> "I think it was a tsume... It looked all creepy!" she giggled as the healing, substance was placed on her cuts, apparently being slightly ticklish. then continued "It was kind of like a bug... With lots of slithery bits, it made a weird scritchy noise when it moved..." she pauses to think some more, not seeming the best at describing things in more detail than 'creepy' "Umm... it was brown? " she offered with a final shrug giving up on the description.

As the healing took effect she nodded to pixel, then green 'matrix-y' letters cascaded over her, replacing her normal colours then vanishing, along with her rather quickly. The very next moment she plopped her head down ontop of Jam's resting with her nose pretty much between his eyes, and the rest of her on the back of his head. "I didn't know it was that scary... My mom does much scarier things, but their pretty like night rainbows." she says with a small yawn, getting kind of tired from using such a variety of abilites today...

Teklon blinked at them eyes focusing then unfocusing, before he finally snapped out of it, right back into jukebox mode... Starting with Captain jack - The race. although his volume was turned down to an ok level.