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Post by Johnny on Apr 19, 2009 15:38:54 GMT -5
Johnny smiled broadly as he walked into the aquarium. He'd been here once already so he pretty much knew where everything was. But he had a job to do.
The day was, Johnny had the day off, and he'd been bored. So he swiftly came up with a cure. To pester Leroy. He knew that Leroy wouldn't take it too personally and they both might get a kick out of it.
So he walked up to the ticket booth.
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Post by Leroy on Apr 19, 2009 18:35:29 GMT -5
"Thank you, and have a great day at Ocean World Aquarium," Leroy said for the hundredth time that day. He stood in his ticket booth with his blue Ocean World polo on, selling tickets to whoever happened to wander in. It was dull work and not a lot happened during the day. At least he got to talk to Wendy. The girl taking tickets from the window on the opposite side of the booth.
"Welcome to Ocean World. How many tickets wou- Johnny?" Leroy was surprised to see Johnny here. Why would he want to come to a place like this? Well, actually, Leroy probably would have considered it himself if he didn't work here all the time. "I suppose you want one of the free tickets I mentioned before," Leroy said somewhat jokingly. This was definitely a pleasant surprise.
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Post by Johnny on Apr 20, 2009 4:24:41 GMT -5
"Just one ticket? I was thinking of a dozen tickets to go, actually," Johnny said with a mischievious smile. Glancing around, he realized that the line for Leroy's booth had died off mostly. Like, eight people were still there. But Johnny just leaned over and rested his arms on the counter in front of the glass, where the tickets and money were exchanged.
"So how ya doing?" He said, totally oblivious to the stares (and glares) that he was getting from the balding man next in line and the other people. tHen his eyes wandered over to the other side of the booth. He let out a slow whistle as he saw a quite attractive girl. With a twinkle in his eyes, he bluntly asked Leroy, "You like her?" He pointed at her to show who he was talking about.
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Post by Leroy on Apr 21, 2009 12:14:19 GMT -5
Leroy motioned for the other guests to move forward while Johnny stood there so that he could help them. Leroy was a bit annoyed that Johnny was standing right in the way, but Leroy wasn't about to mention it. He just didn't want either of them to get in trouble for it. Not to mention the rudeness...
"I'm fine, I guess," Leroy said when Johnny asked. Leroy held back a snicker when Johnny whistled at Wendy, but then got a look of pure horror on his face when Johnny asked if he liked her. What was he thinking!? "I, well, I mean..." Leroy stumbled over his words and he heard Wendy giggling behind him.
"Of course he does," Wendy said, turning around. "Otherwise we would have killed each other by now, being cramped up in here all day." She gave a little wink then turned back to help a new customer. Boy, she sure helped him dodge a bullet there.
"So you want a ticket or not?" Leroy asked in a desperate attempt to change the subject.
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Post by Johnny on Apr 21, 2009 14:35:12 GMT -5
Johnny smiled as the girl twisted around and defended Leroy. He winked at her just before she turned around. Then he moved to the side, enough to still be able to talk to Leroy yet allow room for a bulky guy to ask for a ticket.
Johnny waited until after the man got a ticket before totally ignoring Leroy's obvious evasive question before asking, "So. You ask her out yet? Just wanting to know in case you start bugging me for money for a date and so I'll be ready with an excuse." Johnny's eyes were shining, yet his expression was blank as he asked Leroy quite embarassing quesitons in front of a dozen people. He also wanted to know Leroy's answer so that Johnny himself could get a shot at the girl.
"By the way, what's her name?" he asked, nonchalantly. He was plainly talking about the girl who had to rush to rescue her possible boyfriend. Maybe this day will be more exciting than I thought. Go figure, he thought to himself.
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Post by Leroy on Apr 21, 2009 20:21:13 GMT -5
"So. You ask her out yet? Just wanting to know in case you start bugging me for money for a date and so I'll be ready with an excuse." Leroy shot Johnny a dirty look. Would you cut it out! he was thinking, although he managed to refrain from saying it out loud. He heard a couple more giggles from behind him and Leroy could feel his cheeks turning bright red. "Her name is Wendy," he said through gritted teeth when Johnny asked. Leroy finished helping the last group of customers in line then quickly said to Wendy, "I'm going to go on break." Then he put the closed sign on his window and quickly exited the booth. Anything to get away from the awkwardness! Leroy was already plotting out a plan to go visit Johnny at his pet store for payback.
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Post by Johnny on Apr 22, 2009 5:32:09 GMT -5
Johnny couldn't help himself. The effect of his teasing had made Leroy leave his station. That was just too cool! And he had another way of 'bugging' him. He went around to the other side of the booth and bought a ticket from Wendy. Then he went into the aquarium. Once inside, he found a shaded spot, one that was out of view of everyone.
He stripped off his jeans (and put his wallet in the pocket of his shorts). Then he morphed into the wasp. The process was disgusting like it usually was, but he was glad that here were no mirrors. Then, using all of the wasps senses, he retraced the short path he had just taken as a human and was back in the lobby within ten minutes. He landed on the ticket booth ceiling, hanging upside down from it, a foot away from a large clock. From there, he could roughly make out the time.
Then he spoke to Leroy in thought-speak. <<C'mon! You didn't answer my question! Have you asked Wendy out yet? I'm being serious, man! by the way, where are you?>>
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Post by Leroy on Apr 24, 2009 16:10:51 GMT -5
As soon as he left the ticket booth, Leroy headed to the staff break room. He went into the little restroom attached and locked the door. "Lets see how Johnny likes a taste of his own medicine," he said to himself. Leroy wasn't exactly mad at Johnny, but he was definitely annoyed at the moment.
He concentrated on his weevil morph. He hadn't used this shape in a while, and there was a reason for that, but he needed to be able to slip under the door. Bug morphs tended to be really disgusting when you morphed them. This instance was no exception.
The first change was his mouth. It pulled itself out into a long tube and his teeth dissolved. Leroy tried to let out a yelp in surprise, but it ended up as an erie whistle sound. Next all of the bones in Leroy's arms dissolved, leaving his arms as a sagging mass for a moment before his skin began to harden into the exoskeleton of the invertebrate. As if that weren't bad enough, his feet suddenly decided to change shape, causing leroy to topple forward and slam into the toilet.
Oomph! Luckily his chest had just grown an exoskeleton as well or else he could have wound up hurt pretty badly. By this time the toilet was nearly as big as leroy since he was shrinking down to a tiny size. Everything was looking so big! Suddenly antennae, wings and extra legs sprouted from his body, completing the last of the changes.
<<This better be worth it,>> he said to himself. He found his way to the door and crawled under. Then he headed back towards where he had last seen Johnny.
<<C'mon! You didn't answer my question! Have you asked Wendy out yet? I'm being serious, man! by the way, where are you?>> a voice in his head said. What!? Johnny was in morph! Nooo! How could they have had the same idea.
<<Copycat,>> Leroy said, ignoring Johnny's questions for the moment. <<I was supposed to pester you with thought speech. Not the other way around. And for your information, we're just friends.>> For now, he added to himself. <<Where are you anyway?>>
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Post by Johnny on Apr 25, 2009 7:45:01 GMT -5
Johnny was actually surprised by an answer. He hadn't actually considered how he would hear Leroy's response but now it was in his head. Kind of. <<What can I say, Leroy? Great minds think alike. Besides, you know that I have to be the best bugger around, no matter who came up with the idea first.>> After a brief pause and a flight to land on the clock, Johnny said, <<And you're sure that you're just friends? Are you sure you guys aren't, like, boyfriend and girlfriend? I totally understand. After all, she is pretty hot. But I'm not going to try to steal her away from you or anything.>>
<And I am right between the two and the three, somewhere between twelve and fourteen minutes. And where are you? Oh wait, are you that woman over there who keeps looking at me strangely? The one with hair that I think is bright red? You'd think she'd never seen a wasp before. Go figure.>>
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Post by Leroy on Apr 27, 2009 18:54:40 GMT -5
Apparently Johnny just wasn't going to let up with being such a pest. At least Wendy couldn't hear what Johnny was saying now (hopefully). That helped to alive some of the annoyance, but not all. <<I am sure that we are just friends,>> Leroy insisted. <<Just friends. Friend friends. Nothing more. Got it?>>
When Leroy was pretty sure that he had made his point, he began to think about Johnny's other question. <<No, I am not a woman with red hair. I'm a weevil. Are you a woman?>> Leroy shuddered at the thought. The ability to morph brought up way too many bizarre possibilities that a sane person would never even dream of. <<I'm guessing you are by the clock, at any rate.>> He began flying in that direction.
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Post by Johnny on Apr 30, 2009 15:11:20 GMT -5
If he'd been human, Johnny would have assumed an all-knowing expression. But he was a wasp so he settled for talking in a voice of disbelief, <<Suuuuuurrre. You two are just friends. Juuuuuust friends. I gotcha.>> He obviously did not believe a single word he'd said. Even if he did, he wouldn't admit it.
And then Leroy brought up a very awkward quesiton. <<Well, uh, I've no idea. I mean, I'm not a girl, but I dunno about the wasp. And this suddenly seems so wrong!>> He suppressed the urge to bend his head and neck down to check. Not that he knew what he was supposed to be looking for. He didn't know a single thing about wasp anatomy except that they had stingers and freaky heads.
Then he waited after Leroy's voiced comment. He buzzed his wings and began flying in a random direction. After a minute or so, he landed on a flat surface, eith a desk, floor, chair, roof, or something else. Wherever he was, Leroy probably wouldn't find him. He hoped. It just seemed easier to annoy someone if they couldn't even see you.
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Post by Leroy on May 2, 2009 1:34:09 GMT -5
So Johnny was a wasp? For some reason Leroy wasn't the least bit surprised. Johnny was being such a pest that it was only natural the morph he chose to use was also a pest. Although whether or not it was a girl wasp made him laugh a little.
<<Haha, I just remembered something. One time I was watching a nature show that talked about ants and they said most of the ants are female. I'm not sure if wasps are the same way, but if they are... Haha, oh man. I hope they are.>> Leroy landed on the clock, but didn't see any other bugs present. <<Where are you?>>
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Post by Johnny on May 3, 2009 7:01:16 GMT -5
<<Okay dude, that is like, so gross.>> Johnny politely informed Leroy. He crawled around on the surface he was on and allowed the wasp to take over motor functions. Then he got a brainstorm. <<Oh! Well, how do you know that the weevil isn't a girl? Or the doberman? Or the elephant? Or the duck? Huh? I know that my dog and gecko are guys.>> He conveniently left out the eagle. He wasn't really sure what that was.
He merely laughed over Leroy's confusion. He wasn't going to let Leroy know where he was. <<Well, I'm obviously not on the clock. Why do you ask?>> he said, in a tone like Leroy ought to know where he was. And Johnny ought to know where he was. So, since the senses of the wasp were to horrible to give him many details, he came up with a brilliant idea. He jumped. And fell. So that meant that he had been under something. Well, he was now on...something else. That narrowed down so many posibilities.
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Post by Leroy on May 4, 2009 0:54:02 GMT -5
<<Well, Johnny, I am sure that my elephant and doberman morphs are male due to... anatomical reasons. However, I got no clue about my bug morph, but I don't really care since I can't tell anyway. As for the duck, I'm not sure either. But aren't the more colorful ducks the males? At least that is true for mallards.>>
Leroy would have to look up more about his duck morph when he got the chance. For now he would have to settle for trying to find Johnny. Or actually, maybe he would just pretend to look for johnny. <<Well, since you aren't on the clock, I guess I'll try looking over there.>> Leroy stayed where he was. He figured he wouldn't be able to find a bug if he was a bug anyway, so he wasn't even going to bother trying.
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Post by Johnny on May 4, 2009 14:32:22 GMT -5
Johnny flew off of whatever it was that he was on. He was getting bored now. Leroy didn't sound like he would say anything else about Wendy and he wasn't really being embarassd by the possibility of being a girl at the moment, so he chose another approach. He flew around until he found the door to the booth. Then he tried to follow a steady stream of people as they (he hoped) went into the actual aquarium with the exhibits. Then he tried to find out where his clothes were.
Fifteen minutes later, he had located his clothes and demorphed. Then he decided to speak to Leroy again, in case Leroy began to suspect something. <<Hey Leroy, what does this door lead to?>> he asked casually. He could use the thought-speak because he was now in morph. More accurately, he was now a common house gecko.
And he had a plan. He was reading the name off of the first door that was slightly hidden off of the trail that visitors were supposed to travel on. It said "No Unauthorized Personnel Allowed". He hoped that he could goad Leroy into going in there with him, to see what was actually in there.
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