Chapter 1: Hunger for Strawberries

[slowpoke]

Charon ran down the sidewalk and turns the corner to see Manalist police. He moves around them and follows the trail he goes down and alley way and turns, Asphodel is flying close behind him "Sir" she spoke quickly and hurriedly "who exactly are we running to?" Charon turn another corner to see Attis talking to a person out of view.

"That" whispered Charon pointing at the tailed man "is why we rushed here so fast" "Him sir?" spoke Asphodel "You're worried about a teenager wearing a tail?" Charon almost allowed himself to laugh "That is no teenager my small companion, that is a forest demon." "A forest dem-" Charon failed to hear Asphodel's whispers as he exposed himself to Attis. "Turn back fowl beast" he spoke in a hushed tone "This city doesn't require your services"

[marsatacker]

"you dont remember me? hmm, thats a pity but it seems I must go"

Turning around to walk away from the girl back towards the alley in which he first came from, attis finds himself stopped by a man. Ignoring the insult as he continued to walk past the person, he turned and glanced towards him as he noticed the fairy floating around behind the person's head.

"I have no intention of servicing this city, and I plan to return to the forest... in due time"

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

"Wait! Don't go!" I shout after him, but he quickly leaves and I am left alone with what appears to be an elf. I am left with an empty, sad feeling as I look off to where that fox disappeared.
I sigh and turn to the elf. I am mildly impressed by this elf since I have never seen one before. However, my mind is still stuck on the man who just left us.

"You know him?" I ask the elf.

[slowpoke]

Charon frowns "Somewhat, I've met him before I think. I simply can't recall where." Charon ponders to himself for a second before returning to the girl. "You seem upset that he left? Why would you miss the presence of a trouble maker such as Attis"

Charon frowns for a second and turns his head to check for Asphodel, his smile returns when he sees her hovering over his shoulder

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

"There is something about him which is both familiar and quite unusual." I reply quickly.

"He can use Manala energy, but he isn't a Manalist." I say in a confused way. I play with my dress and look down as I talk to this elf.

"Everything is strange today. What a strange day! Why...you sir, you look like an elf!"

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei and his companion arrive at the secret hospital and hastily begin unloading their cargo.

"Did you see all those manalist police?" Alexei asks quietly, quite nervous before adding, "Must have been having trouble. Lets get this stuff in the hospital quick."

With that, and with hte assistance of the descrete hospital's staff, the morphine begins to get unloaded.

[Jack Kruschev]

“ I don’t really have necessarily a ‘best one’. But I have created my favorite.” Anthony reaches over and grabs a remote control. The presses a button and the double-doors in the back of the laboratory open up to reveal the working animal he had worked on a while ago. It resembled a bull, but with dog-like features. Anthony sits back and relaxes as the animal slept in it’s cage. “It doesn’t die easily and is safe to use. Extremely mindless and obedient, it’s the perfect animal to put to work.”

“Also,” Anthony continues as he pulls out a picture of a small shrub. “This shrub is designed to absorb and do-away with radiation. It can survive in most climates, however, it can only be produced through a cloning process; it cannot grow naturally. I’m working on it, if I go at my current progress, it should be done in a couple years,” Anthony says.

[slowpoke]

Chardon laughed at the girls perplexity "I am an elf my dear" He reaffirmed his posture and began speaking in a very professional tone

"My name is Charon Desjardins, and I am a silver elf (the last one to my knowledge) I have dedicated the past 5,000 years of my time on this earth to learning, mostly religous topics. I work at Helsinki university, I teach a class on Theology"

He bowed low and resumed his posture "and who might you be my dear?"

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

"..you are an elf.." I repeat quietly to myself and let it sink in. He has long silver hair and wears ornate clothes. The clothes seem old or strange, but also expensive. I suddenly feel shy and mediocre talking to him.

"I'm just Hilja...an everyday person." I say quietly. I consider the other things that he said.

"Charon...Charon.." I look down at the slip of paper that I am holding. "Charon...I am looking for a man named Charon Dejardins, about a job..." I say, then glance up from the small slip of paper I am holding. Today really is an unsual day.

"As for Helsinki University...I went there, for Political Science. I never saw you though. Funny....well, nice to meet such an important Professor..and an elf too!"

[Dinari Dollar]

"There's no doubt about it that I will for sure order those shrubs." Dinari states as he looks over the foliage of the radiation eating plant. "As for the other things, I would have to ask Peter and Tuvi. They are my assistants and help me out with these sorts of decisions." He says and turns to his helpers.

"The dog bull thing is just plain freaky, but, I can see how it would be useful."

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei tells Sakari to stay with the jeep and goes back towards where he saw all the police, very curious about what happened, and ontop of that he really wanted to walk. The jeep was a bit better, but still cramped. It was why he hated teleportation booths.

He stealthily walked along the streets, on edge the closer he came to the disaster zone. He skulked along the fringes of the confrontation, noticing what looks like wild vines having moved recently, almost manipulated. Alexei recalled the boss saying something about plant people. He wondered if this could be useful somehow. Deciding to talk to someone who were NOT police, Alexei started skulking off, looking for someone to interview briefly.

[Jack Kruschev]

Anthony waits while Danari talks with his assistants.

“If you’ll excuse me, Mr. Dollar, I need to get a bit of work done. I’ll be here, in the lab, so if you need me, I’ll be here for you.” Anthony indicates toward a small laptop. “The shrub I told you about is called the R.A.S., and everything you need to know about it is in this presentation.” Anthony types a bit a pulls up a power point presentation showing various pictures.

[slowpoke]

Charon smiled at the girl. Her sudden in shyness doesn't bother him, he's used to it by now. "Bah" he says with a wave if his hand "I'm no important professor, I'm just you everyday immortal theologian" he says this with a smirk.

Charon then looks down to the paper in the girl's hand. "I already put up a notice?" he muttered under his breath "I should really pay attention to the things I do." He then returned his gaze to the girl. "Of course you can have the job, follow me, I shall show you where the you'll work"

He turned around and started walking, he noticed that Asphodel is no longer in sight "Strange" he thinks to himself "where could she have gone?"

[Dinari Dollar]

"Later!" Dinari calls out after Anthony. He then turns to his pals, Peter and Tuvi.

"This place is something else, isn't it? Pretty freaky."

He sits down in a spinning chair and turns on the presentation on the plant. Today has been productive for Dinari, but, so many interesting things is a little too much for his simple mind. He ends up falling asleep in his spinning chair during the presentation.

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

I follow after Charon, but I don't bother to ask who he is looking for. I didn't see anyone with him and I am already confused by so many things about today. I can't believe how well things are working out. I didn't even have to search for him. However, my mind returns to Attis.

"You seemed upset with that Attis...is he really such a trouble maker? He seems harmless.." I say while walking with him.