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This thread is a private roleplay thread for Phase Two of the Fa'e Lost Children Contest. Please do not post here unless you are one of the participants listed below! The rules of this phase of the contest can be found here with additional information here for your reference.

You have until February 1st to complete this RP! Please do your very best to do five RP posts apiece, following the post order you set. Remember to keep checking back and post as promptly as you can when it's your turn!

Group #2 Participants: Lenachan358 (Vipul), Raife (Sigeric), Kyrianna (Ghytere Kaa).

Post Order: Kyrianna, Raife, Lenachan358

Prompt: The lost Fa'e and their Guardians have been retrieved from their respective worlds and brought to Gaia by Airi. However, a member of Chaos' Legion has been waiting for the new arrivals, and as Airi leads the group to Fa'e HQ, the twisted creature attacks!

... Specifically, it attacks in the form of Xochitl's pink elephant toy, now possessed and forced into a grotesque and terrible life-size. The monstrosity lunges for Airi, and manages to squish her down beneath its horrible blotched rump. Airi vanishes, whether by her own choice or someone else's magic it is not clear... and the posessed plushie turns on the Lost Children and their Guardians.

What do you do?


Notes: The setting is in front of Fa'e HQ - basically grass, somewhat withered from winter frost, and a dirt path. The weather is chilly, but not freezing, and somewhat overcast. The time is mid-afternoon.

The monster will attack using basic physical attacks and brute force, no magic or other powers - solely strength. It is big (since it is an elephant and all) and surprisingly fast, and strong... but it's not incredibly smart. Not dumb as a post, but nobody's going to admit it into Mensa anytime soon. It will direct its attacks primarily towards the Fa'e, not so much the Guardians. If you run, it will give chase.

You are permitted to play the opponent and to determine when (and if!) it drops, but remember not to godmod - it will take some kind of concerted effort to take the thing down. Don't expect to recieve high points if your Fa'e downs it in one hit before anyone else gets a chance, for example!

Any thought that might have existed in the hollow between Sigeric's ears drained quite quickly at the sight of the new apparition. It was so very large -he couldn't ever remember seeing an animal so huge- and so very...that color, what was it again? And yet, the shape of the animal seemed so very familiar.

"Now, hey. Hey, pay attention. I'm going to show you some flashcard pictures of animals. So when you meet new people at this place, they don't think I'm a terrible, what did she call me? Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be your guardian. Hey, hey, don't eat that."

Sige shrugged at the brief flashback. The words were all gibberish to him anyway. But he remembered seeing that thing before. Wasn't it supposed to look different? Something was off about what it looked like. But he didn't have time to try and generate a complete thought -generally a slow, time consuming process in Sigeric's head anyway- as it came thundering towards him with a clatter of pink feet and trembling ground.

Instead of panicking, however, this eased Sige's mind. He knew exactly what to do in that sort of situation. Lunging so quickly forward that he left the oversized boxers he was wearing behind on the ground at his feet, he sprang over the plushie's back, clawed nails grabbing to cling to its head, ripping into cloth and stuffing like cotton candy as he tore into its head. As the creature continued to buck and race, Sige clung like a burr, jostling up and down haphazardly. What little brain was left in his skull was jumbling around and all he could do was what he knew best.

Rip and tear, rip and tear. Hey! This was kind of fun!

It only took a minute for Ghytere to get back on his feet and he inwardly smirked at the charging, biting, and clawing thing atop the beast's back. The beast itself was thrashing and making horribly pained noises as the fabric it was made of was coming apart.

At this point, it was likely thinking it was a bad idea to inhabit a body made of fluff and fabric.

Despite the smirk that Ghytere was giving, he was quite displeased that someone had made the first move without him. After all, he was supposed to be the best in battle, right? He gripped the sword at his side that he had insisted upon bringing with him (As even though his nails were sharp he doubted the poison would work on something that apparently didn't have blood) and charged, jumping on the beast's front left foot and smashing the pointed blade into the soft 'flesh' that was offered.

The elephant didn't seem to feel that - after all, it was larger and the sword, compared to him, didn't seem to make much difference. He was definitely more concerned with the clawing thing on his back. Being the stupid thing he was he charged straight for the headquarter's wall in an attempt to smash Sige off of him.

Unfortunately, he was stupid, and ran headfirst instead of turning at the right moment, knocking him and Ghytere onto their asses. That ******** HURT! Giving a growl, the blue Fa'e picked up his sword and shoved it into the ground, using it to pull himself up. While the creature was dazed was the perfect time to attack! Now that it was sitting and he was standing, they were ALSO at an advantage.

But wait, wasn't a third person supposed to be in the mix? Nevermind that, there was no time! The beast was stupid but he was FAST and as soon as being dazed wore off he'd be on his feet again. Ghytere lunged again, hoping his sword met his mark at the beast's neck.

Alijatra, on the other hand, figured that the boys had it handled pretty well. Of course, this lazy looking sod beside him could be helping. The Meiyesta looked at Vipul, grabbed his dagger, and shoved it into his hand. "Go stab the piñata, pretty boy."

That was Ali for you.

Within seconds there was a dagger shoved into his hands. It was not that Vipul was stupid, but it took him some time to completely grasp what was going on. Taking a deep breath he almost started coughing right away. The air was filled with all kinds of different emotions, but none of them were good ones in his sense of taste. Disgusting, just as if somebody had decorated chocolate with mixed pickles.

"Pina-what ?" The Fa'e noticed how he started to sweat. He didn't like this situation and slowly the idea trickled into his mind that this could be about fighting. Perhaps a Pinata was some kind of name for a sword ?

Prem rescued the absurd train of thought. "Something you hit and candy falls out."

Ooooh...

Of course the hitting part was obviously the bad aspect, but the candy appeared to be of Vipul's liking. A slight grin was conjured onto his lips and the teen was about to make a step forward as Sigeric let go of the big pinata and it started stomping towards them.

The others appeared to be far more skilled than Vipul himself and the candy could be shared in the end. He wouldn't volunteer for this game. Pushing the dagger back into Ali's hands he smiled slightly and bowed. After all Prem had educated him like a gentleman. "Thanks, but I'm not interested."

An ear-splitting war-cry broke the air, shattering a relative quietness as almost two hundred pounds of naked creature of legend vaulted up over the elephant's behind to land back on its back. He'd taken advantage of the elephant's stilled state to craft a very simple plan of attack.

He'd rip the damn thing's head off.

Shoving his fingers into the already battle-torn fabric head -and wasn't it pleasing to be able to make use of your own handiwork?- he pulled and pushed and tugged and rended fabric until the few still solid seams holding the ridiculous head onto its body snapped and the head tumbled to the ground. The elephant let out an entirely inconceivable sound, somewhere between a keening wail and a scream, and the head still continued to roll about on the ground, as if it didn't need the body to survive. It finally stopped at Ghytere's feet, propping itself up against his leg, rocking back and forth angrily like a possessed turtle stuck on its back.

If the whole spectacle was needlessly grotesque, Sige didn't seem to notice, nor mind. Hands full of stuffing, he held the gory, cottonesque guts up to his face quizzically. Nope, like previously noted, this certainly wasn't what he'd expected from the creature. It was time to get to the heart of the matter.

Popping his head over the edge of the rampaging creature's now wide-open neck joint, Sigeric paused for one moment to look at the spilling fluff before burrowing inside like a mole. Stuffing puffed and splattered out behind him as he wormed his way in until he disappeared, fully submerged in the elephant's body.

The elephant body was, in the least, non-plussed by this event. If anything, it only served to further enrage it, using its spare, non-mutilated feet to stamp at Ghytere and his very offensive sword. Hard to tell if this was a product of having someone inside him or just the general bad disposition it had affected throughout its entire encounter with the three teens and their guardians.

It was a bit mysterious as to what Sige could be accomplishing -or not- inside the beast. The only sign of him was the occasional thump or outstretch of the animal's fabric outsides. His guardian watched with a troubled brow. What if he'd brought the boy over just to have him swallowed into another dimension through the belly of a plush elephant come to life and gone on some mad rampage? After all he'd seen, it certainly didn't seem the least possible turn of events, if a tiny bit improbable. He wondered if the young lady was in there too, swallowed up into plush pink bowels, fated to meet in a sort of counter-digestion.

"Hey, hey...can somebody..." He gestured to the elephant to no one in particular. "Can somebody cut him out?" He made a helpless, useless gesture. His unathletic desk-jockey's build certainly didn't lend towards battle and he wasn't in any hurry to test it.

Sige burrowing inside of the beast amused Ghytere for a few moments before he decided it would be a bad idea to be attached to the flailing plushie. He was already in a bit (understatement) of pain and he didn't fancy being thrown against the wall once again. At least Vipul looked like he was going to come in and help? As much as the chubby, lazy prat could help, anyway.

Alijatra was pleased when Vipul went forward - but wasn't so pleased by the lack of doing anything. If it wasn't for Ghytere pulling his sword out and jabbing the monstrosity again, Ali would have jumped in that moment.

For now, he was sated - although scowling rather hard.

Of course, Ghy wasn't exactly understanding anything anyone was saying so he couldn't go and help Sige. Even his father's speech was foreign to him at the moment. All he knew was Vipul wasn't helping and he was getting QUITE annoyed.

If you get out of this alive, you're killing the fatboy.
He's not FAT....
Oh, yes, he is. He's fat. Maybe we can give him a h...
QUITE enough. Ghytere, I believe the larger boy wants to torch him.

Oh. So that was what that little thing was? Well, all right, that could work...But Ghy wasn't about to let the tubby one take the credit for the kill. Grabbing his sword and stepping forward, the blue Fa'e held out his hand expectantly.

"Hiwegest ze haresh sh'neshtidne."*

A long pause before Alijatra called, "He wants you to give him the lighter!"

((*Give me fire starter))

It was indeed a very exclusive lighter. Taking into account that Edenesa had been a technically highly advanced society it wasn't much of a surprise. To Vipul it was a pretty normal appearance though.

Looking at the blue boy in front of him he didn't hesitate for a second and pushed the lighter into his hand ( although Gythere should work on his pronounciation, he hadn't understood anything until the translation ). This was even easier than he had expected. Vipul didn't care about honour or similar occurences but was very much relieved that he was out of the game now. A grin spread on his face just as the light had started to burn on the lighter beforehand.

Actually his attention focused on Sigeric for a moment who seemed to have made his way out of the plush. The elephant started to annoy Vipul very much and he couldn't understand why they just didn't let it rummage around on its own and visit the nearby building. Perhaps the lady was waiting there for them ?

Lost in his teenage dreams about Airi and a good meal he caught Sige's look. "What ?" Vipul asked and his annoyance was certainly mixed with a teen's annoyance for EVERYTHING. It didn't last long though because his stomach rumbled slightly.

Rolling his eyes he sat down calmly and glanced at the guardians. He wanted to go now and he was hungry and this had been the most exhausting thing he had done for years. The others seemed to be useful enough for the pink horror and he hated machines and such anyway. So why bother about lighters ?