Chapter Eight: And the Beat Goes On...if we ever get there

"No really?" Bumblebii pulls her self into a sitting position.

The creature inside gives on hard push that shatters the egg into many red and yellow pieces. A blue darkelf dragon hatchling is sitting on the bed in place of the egg. With a chirp it hops onto Bii's lap.

"Hello there...little girl...I haven't seen you coloration before."

The hatchling just chirped happily.

"Bii, Give her a name!"

"Okay! Okay! How about Chuu?"

The hatchling stares with malice at that. It sounds more like "shoo" then anything else.

"That's a no sis."

"Chuutou! It means mid-winter."

The winter hatchling chirps with joy.

"Chuutou it is. Now, I'm going back to bed."

"Bii, we really need to get going! Get up."

"But I only had two hours of sleep..."

"Get over it let's go."

"Fine..." she forces herself out of bed with Chuutou perched on her shoulder. Today was going to be another busy one. After all they've only opened two gates.

"Do you ever keep your thoughts to yourself?" Sachie says annoyed as he left the room with Velare on his shoulder.

"We are bondmates! Why should I?"

"Shuuu, You'll wake everyone."

"I regret to inform you that I'm awake. As is my brother, so we have two new members of the group now," Bumblebii's voice was merely a whisper. She's leaning on the door frame with her brother on the opposite side. Chuutou sits perched on her shoulder.

"Bii? Is that a Darkelf dragon?"

"Yes and he must be a haken..."

"You hit right on the nail. I might look draconic but I'm no where near it," Itome preens himself.

Chuutou looks over with a happy chirp. This was confusing but what else could she do?

"Why me? Why am I stuck with some self centered haken thing?"

"Because I deserve the quite cute critter, 'Mitrii deserves a justice freak, Oomlaut deserves something with a bit of energy. You're stuck with the self-centered critter!"

"How...nice."

"Bet your bottom dollar buddy!"

"Make him stop..."

"You are his bondmate shouldn't you two like each other?" 'Mitrii blinks in heavy confusion.

"I'm with 'Mitrii on this one."

"It's not that complicated. I am a bit self centered and Sachie is too. He just sees to much of me in him!"

"Right, and I'm a Saint."

"Sachie's a saint now? Doesn't this mean I can't hit on him?" Oomlaut sticks her head out from her bed room.

"Is that all you think about?"

"Who's she?" Velare stares wide eyed.

Chuutou nods and chirps. She seemed a bit hyper...

"I'm Oomlaut Neethersparra," she whispers that so she won't wake up the whole house.

"That's...a long name."

Chuu whistles.

"You people are so boring! Let's go destroy something in the name of Justice."

Dmitrii blinks, "You have one really twisted sense of justice. We have to find someone breaking a law and we wouldn't want to destroy them."

"...Right."

"Oomlaut, you're scaring us all," Bii edges toward her bedroom.

"Don't you dare go anywhere Bii. I don't feel like waking you up again."

"But I'm so tired."

"Like Sachie and I are most of the time since three months ago."

"That's right your insomnia started before we took up this little task."

"For once we got a good night's sleep...sort of," Sachie sighs as Itome grins.

"Oh, it could be worse," 'Mitrii grins.

"How so?"

"I have one word, Oomlaut."

Sachie resists the urge to fall flat on his face. That was one powerful word, even if it wasn't really spelt right.

"Gee you make me feel so wanted!"

Dmitrii suddenly snaps his fingers, "The gate!"

"What about it brother?"

"Where is it?"

"Um...I don't really know...."

"How can you not know where it is?"

"Give me a brake! It was late at night, I don't remember where I went."

"This is one of the most important things to our world and you can't remember!"

"Lay off."

"Grrr...."

"Does this mean we have to wander around the house looking for this Gate?" Oomlaut steps into the hallway fully dressed.

"Yep, unless you want the world to end."

"You're such a downer Sachie!"

"Oi...let's just go guys."

"Yes, let's and we don't have to take the Oos and dragons along," Bii begins to walk down the small corridor, having no clue where they're going.

"Bumblebii we've been around this old house for how long?" Sachie stops to lean on a flowery wall.

"You people have no clue where you're going!" Velare lays limp on Sachie's neck.

"I told you I don't remember where it is!"

"You are utterly useless!" Sachie just collapses on the floor muttering.

Oomlaut sighs, "I tried all those spells and nothing worked. It's like the gate doesn't want to be found."

"Or is it the sprit that protects it?" Dmitrii looks toward the ceiling.

"He did seem a bit...um..."

"Was he a womanizer Bii?" 'Mitrii blinks.

"He did call me chick half the time."

"So...that must be the one they call Raleigh..."

"You know this how?"

"Did you EVER listen to our teachings?"

"Sometimes...when I thought it was something that was useful."

"Riiight."

"Just shut up and let's find this guy!"

"He'll be really hard to find. He doesn't want to be shown up by a woman, it's ironic how he guards one."

"I really need the hurt the narrator..."

"What are you talking about?" Oomlaut looks wide eyed.

"I'm with fox girl. Are all demons insane or is it just my imagination," Itome rolls his white eyes.

"It's a long story but can we please go? Chuutou is not going to stay asleep forever."

'Mitrii waves his hand, "Let's go people! No time to lose."

"If the sprit of the gate wasn't dead I'd kill him," 'Mitrii falls to the ground in a tangled heap.

"I'd kill you for making us go on a wild goose chase if you weren't my brother."

Chuu squeaks upset about the high tensions in the air.

"There there," Bii rubs her on the head.

"I wish you were that nice to me Sachie!"

"Shut up, you're royalty. You don't need as much attention."

"Now how does that work?"

"Don't try to understand my logic."

"I couldn't if I tried."

"Can we please find this guy? I'm even annoyed," Oomlaut crosses her arms and begins to tap her foot.

"Okay..."

"FOR THE LOVE OF SAINT JOHN PAUL THE SECOND WHERE IS THAT SPRIT!?" Bumblebii smacks her head against a wall.

"How long have we been searching?" 'Mitrii sighs sitting cross-legged on the ground, not addressing anyone in particular.

"It's been about four hours and we didn't have breakfast," Velare pouts around Sachie's neck.

"Can we give up yet?" Sachie pouts as he leans against the wall on which Bii is banging her head against.

"This is just trippy," Oomlaut pouts hugging her stomach.

"What's the racket?" a definitely male voice comes from a corridor near by.

Bii suddenly stops banging her head, "It's him."

"This means..." 'Mitrii's eyes brighten.

"We found the gate!" Bii jumps away from the wall.

Oomlaut flashes a victory pose, "Justice will always prevail!"

"Yes, Always the side of good..." 'Mitrii looks over at the fox.

She blinks, "Are you being sarcastic Dmitrii?"

"No. I'm just thinking that it depends on your definition of good...."

"O...kay."

Sachie grabs Oomlaut and Dmitrii by the back of the neck, "Come on!"

"I asked what's the racket?" A red head with red eyes looks out of the dark corridor, just to be tackled by Bii.

"YOU EVIL MONSTER!" she shrieks at the top of her lungs.

Thankfully Chuutou was sitting on Bii's shoulders. Other wise the poor little darkelf would have flipped.

Raleigh just smiles, "Why thank you chick."

"It's Bumblebii!"

"Whatever...chick."

"All right! I'm going to punch your face in, NOW!"

"Calm down sister. We need to talk to him and he kind of needs to protect the gate. You can come back and beat him up when Chuutou is all grown up and we've finished this mission."

"Fine."

"I guess you are here to move the gate, eh? Why didn't you ask that Lucifer guy or Sandy chick to help you find me?"

"You'd just screw with our heads anyway..."

"Bumblebii," Dmitrii gives her a stern look.

"Well, you know it's true!"

"Can we please move the gate and get this chick off of me?"

"MY NAME IS BUMBLEBII!"

"Whatever."

"Oh you evil son--"

"Just stop you two! It's not very shiny to fight like that!" Oomlaut looks over with frustration as Sachie holds her collar.

Sachie lets go of the two, "Okay how do we move the gate?"

Velare looks perplexed, "How can one move a gate that is far bigger then we all are put together?"

"Very powerful magic," 'Mitrii supplies.

"How will you guys go about doing this?"

"I just need to see the gate and I can perform the spell. Oomlaut, Sachie would you be kind enough to help me?"

"Sure."

"FWEE! Of course."

"To the gate then. Oh, and Bii get off of him already. He's liking it far to much."

Bii quickly jumps off and slowly walks over to Chuu, "Sorry I scared you dear." She cradled the Darkelf dragon in her arms.

Raleigh rolls his eyes as he gets up, "How touching."

"Quiet hentai," Bii mutters breathily.

"What did you call me?"

"Can we please go?" Oomlaut bounces up and down.

"Fine."

"Now, why are you having problems casting a simple spell?"

"Shut up!" Sachie growls at Raleigh.

"This isn't that easy to cast. We aren't masters or anything," Dmitrii rubs his hands together.

Raleigh just rolls his eyes, "Why isn't you sis helping you?"

"Say why and I hurt you 'Mitrii."

"It's along story..."

"Ah-ha."

"My parts finished," Oomlaut bounces over to Bii, Chuutou and Velare.

Sachie mutters a few words before looking up at the gate, "I'm finished here. The hard part is left for Dmitrii."

"You're all so kind," Dmitrii bows before saying a few words. With a simple flash of light the gate, and spirit are gone. Sent to there rightful place.

Bumblebii leans back with a happy sigh, "He's gone!"

"Can we please, please, please, please eat breakfast?" Oomlaut bounces up and down.

"Let's..."

Those simple words end this little chapter of TORO. We hope you weren't bored mindless...