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Post Merged: February 09, 2010, 11:33:52 PM
CHAPTER THREE
It was another beautiful, sunny day in the fabulous community of Richards Animorph Forum, or as known by its users, RAF. The warm sun was shining in the beautiful blue afternoon sky and there were no clouds in sight. The weather was deliciously warm, but no overly hot or humid. This fantastic weather was normal for RAF, and even though the members experienced it every day, they still stopped to savor it and bask in the sunlight.
None of this occurred however, to the member known as animophzfan57363. Animorphzfan was running through the alley behind the RAF Social board and for good reason. What for being wanted for multiple spamming, trolling and member cruelty, he was being chased by one of the moderators. He ran down the alley and leapt over a trashcan. All he had to do was get to the Introductions & Departures board and he could escape. He leapt a fence and started the final run for the board, when a shadow fell over him. A shadow which gave off scorching heat at the same time. He looked up, and saw a flaming bird the size of an eagle ten feet above him. He gasped, and started to turn to run. Then, he turned around, knowing it was useless to run from a bird, so he turned to fight. He grabbed and pulled a dracon beam from his pocket and pointed it at the flaming phoenix. The bird suddenly expanded outwards violently, its form changed from a flaming bird, to a tall british man, with slightly burnt clothing and fire flickering along his frame. Animorphzfan gasped and started backing up, pointing the dracon beam at the man with trembling hands.
“Back off Phoenix! I don’t wanna hurt you! Just leave me alone.” The moderator, known as Phoenix004, shook his head sadly. Then, with lightning speed, he lunged forward and slapped the weapon, his hand flaring brightly. Animorphzfan yowled in pain and dropped the now molten weapon. He stepped back, clutching his burnt hand. He started pleading with the moderator.
“Please, please! Just let me go, I won’t come back! At least not for a long time, I beg you!” Again Phoenix shook his head sadly.
“I’m sorry man. But you’ve had multiple warnings, multiple requests and still you continued trolling, spamming up the boards and insulting members! The fire in his eyes suddenly flared up, brighter and fiercer. “But no, you ignored all of our threats! You continued your abuse of our forum! Why I will never know, but you did all this and you think you won’t be punished! Then you are sadly mistaken! We at RAF are peaceful and kind, but we still have limits and consequences for actions! The fire in his eyes dimmed a bit, but not by much. He reached into his smoldering jacket and pulled out a small black shape. Animorphzfan gasped in fear as he recognized the ban gun. He pulled away, falling on his back, near hysterical.
“No, please no! You can’t do this to me!” He said sobbing. Phoenix shook his head grimly.
“I’m sorry, you choose this action, not me.” He reached down and twisted the setting on the ban gun. He raised it up and took aim at the quivering figure.
“You will be reactivated in one year from now. Until then, goodbye.” He aimed and squeezed the trigger. There was a flash of light, and the terrified, huddling figure vanished. Phoenix looked in grim satisfaction and holstered the gun. He hated doing this, why couldn’t these members just get the lesson and learn? He clipped the gun back in place, and exploded into flames. Moments later, a blazing bird flew away, off to report to Richard.
In the RAF Social board, in his personal thread, the figure started to stir. The member, formally known as Gumby, now known as OH CANADA, was sleeping in his bed. He was dreaming about something involving maple syrups, beavers, and shotguns and he was smiling. His smile got bigger and bigger, until he felt a flat WHAP to his stomach. He was immediately awake, sucking air trying to regain the air he’d lost in the impact. His eyes flew open and he shot upwards, sitting in his bed. He gasped for air, slowly regaining his breath. He looked for the source of the attack, and saw his pet beaver Woody on the side of his bed grinning a very weird beaver grin. CANADA scowled, and shoved the furry animal off his bed. Woody chuckled, and then waddled off to the kitchen. Stomach still aching from the blow, CANADA stretched carefully, and started his morning wake-up ritual. He cracked his knuckles, stretched his knees, and rolled his neck to loosen it up. He cracked his ankles and finally threw his body off the warm bed. He yawned and grabbed for his clothes hanging on the wooden railing. He pulled on the pair of raggedy blue jeans and slipped on his beat up stained white tee-shirt. Then he pulled on an old plaid jacket and topped it all off with a beat up looking ball cap. He pocketed a nice hunting knife and threw some socks. Then he was out the door and into the kitchen.
Breakfast was already ready for him, a nice big steaming batch of pancakes drenched in maple syrup with an oversized side of Canadian bacon. Pouring himself a nice tall glass of orange juice, he started to devour his chow. Pancake after pancake was sliced up, swabbed in syrup and forked into his mouth, punctuated by slices of bacon and gulps of juice. In the corner of the kitchen, there was a sound like a buzz saw as Woody went at a stack of tree bark, soaked in maple syrup of course. Finally, the plates depleted of food and the tall glass empty, he wiped his mouth, belched, and tossed the dishes into the sink, along a mounting pile of dirty dishes.
“Man, I should get around to cleaning that stuff up eh?” He said to Woody who nodded, then went back to his breakfast. It wasn’t too long before the beaver finished up his food and was ready to head outside. CANADA motioned for him, waited for him to waddle over to him, then he opened the front door and steppe outside into RAF.
Outside the yellow sun blazed warmly on the sprawling RAF community. CANADA squinted for a moment, and then his eyes adjusted enough for him to see what was going on around him. Members everywhere were walking, chatting, heading off to some other board, some were just lazing around their profiles, enjoying the warmth and of course some were kicking back in a corner, reading Animorphs or laughing at the comedic TV show, which had been re-classified from sci-fi to comedy. CANADA recognized several members engaging in RAF life. The imposing seven-foot figures of Spartan 281 and Spartan 219 as they hulked off to the Halo RPG, the imposing shape of Blocky67s dragon body as he flew one hundred feet ahead, blowing up dirt and dust everywhere life helicopter blades as his mighty wings pushed down, the brilliant burning, humanoid form of Estelore skimming inches above the smooth green grass, the blue, centaur like body of Esplin Elsen as he galloped off to the General board, Andalite tail snapping the air around him, and the waddling form of Horsefan1023 as she ran, as much as a five foot seal can run, through the grass and towards her topic. She was carrying a bulging sack with her over her shoulder. CANADA stretched a final time and jogged over to her, beaver en-route behind him.
“Hey Sealy, watcha got in the bag eh?” The seal turned, startled. Her startled expression quickly melted into a very odd looking seal grin as she recognized him jogging over.
“Hey Gumb-I mean CANADA! You mean this stuff?” She said, motioning to the large black sack in her flipper.
“Yeah, what is it?” The Seal smiled mischievously, an even odder thing to see than a smile.
“Well, as you may remember two new members joined us yesterday. And as being me, I confiscated their counter-band.” CANADA looked confused for a moment, and then it dawned on him. He began to laugh.
“Oh, so you’re taking their sanity off to your insanity burner!” He chuckled a bit more as she replied.
“Of course! There’s no need for it here, it just dead weight!” With that, she raced off, laughing wildly. CANADA shook his head, smiling subtly. He turned around to see a large, five foot tall gray cat. He nearly jumped back, when the recognized this certain feline.
“Bladeh Mercury!” He said the she-cat bounded forward, a friendly smile plastered to her angled face.
“MEOW!” She spoke in her cat language, and then reverted to a happy English tongue. “CANADA!” She sprang forward gave a very bizarre looking cat hug, wrapping her paws tightly around him. CANADA blushed briefly then hugged back. Then a sharp pain speared his back.
“Aaah! Watch the claws, the claws!” He yelped in pain. Bladeh pulled back, pulling her excited claws out of his skin. She grinned sheepishly.
“Sorryz ‘bout that, you know me when I get excited.” CANADA rubbed his stinging back and muttered.
“Yeah, no problem. Just don’t hug so tight, or I’ll have to get padding.” Pulling away his hands, he grinned back.
“Bladeh! Great to see you today, how you doing? Busy today?”
“Great to see you too! Oh and no, I’m not doing a whole lot, just lounging around the forum, general board, media, Animorphs, other books, oh and the Warriors RPG of course! And maybe some intro randomness in there, in between listening to Queen and raving about Freddie!” She grinned sheepishly. “Okay, so maybe I am busy, but not that busy! Come on over to my thread, we can do something maybe!”
“Yeah, maybe later today. Anyway, great to see you! But I’ve gotta go now, heading over to post in the Halo RPG with Parker and Sithsniper. But I’ll definitely see you later!” He waved goodbye and turned away. Bladeh flicked off a goodbye with her long elongated tail, and then bounded off to rave about Freddie. CANADA started heading down to the General Roleplaying board and passed some other RAFians, newbies staggering around a little aimlessly. CANADA chuckled inwardly. That was the result of Sealy snatching you sanity, you tended to wander around for a day or so before you got over it. He turned to run, and nearly slammed head on into another RAFian. CANADA jumped back startled. In front of him in all of his glory, with ‘God save the queen’ playing somewhere in the background stood none other than Brad the Brit. RAF’s most British member. Dressed in a formal tuxedo, wearing a tall black top hat and holding a polished black silver tipped cane, he was an impressive sight. In his formal British accent, he spoke.
“Well allo, allo dear chap. Jolly good day in the board eh wot wot?” CANADA grinned and answered the 100% British brit.
“Oh hi Brad. I’m doing well but thanks for asking. How you doing today eh?” The elegant figure smiled thinly.
“Oh I’m jolly fine my dear fellow, jolly fine. Say, are you going to attend the RAFparty tomorrow?” CANADA smiled and rolled his eyes.
‘Of course I am. Now I’ve gotta go now, but I’ll see you later right eh?”
“Of course old bean. I will see you then. Until then, cheerio!” He tapped his cane twice and vanished a puff of smoke. CANADA smiled and shook his head. He walked through were Brad had been and over to the General Roleplaying board.