Sorry, dunno if I can post a chapter even with that little Error 500 snafu earlier. But I'll try and modify this post with one, after I check to see if it'll post.
CHAPTER SIX:
Cloak and the Clover
In a field of clover, Cloak was practing the elements, trying to hone his reaction time and agility, as his mastery with the elements were already at their zenith. Aquilai was nearby, crawling around his TARDIS like an ant on picnic food. Repairing, regular maintenance, updating it -- who know?
"You missed," the Time Lord commented absently, referring to air pulse shot Cloak took at a target.
"Say, would you love your TARDIS to
pieces?" Cloak said, with a subtle irritable threat.
"That was uncalled for." Aquilai said, suddenly livid.
Cloak had forgotten how touchy Time Lords got about their TARDISes. It was almost as if the two were quantumly-entangled, like quantum lichen*.
"Alright. Alright, I went to far." Cloak conceded. Then Cloak's right ear twitched at a distant sound. Aquilai didn't appear to hear it, but Cloak was sure it was from RAF -- the two were essentially on a training leave, on the inactive list of RAFians.
Aquilai was quick on the uptake. At once, he said, "What's going on? What's happening?"
Cloak frown a bit, "Sakki's twlling someone to back off."
"Rotiart must be up to his meddling ways again," Aquilai suggested with a shrug.
"She's never used her sonics on him, though," Cloak said, thoughlyy nonplussed. "Usually, a simple glare is enough to --" Then, quite suddenly, something soared over the field, tumbling in the air.
"What the devil was that?" Aquilai asked fervently.
"Looked like the ugliest little man I've ever seen adorned in green." Cloak said, "with the stupidest-looking bowler hat I've ever seen."
"Please tell me you're kidding." Aquilai said.
A beat passed.
"You're not kidding."
Then the little man appeared, looking thoroughly ruffled, and proceed to make his way back. He was giving the clover a wide birth. Cloak noticed this, and raised an eyebrow.
"Doesn't he see us . . . oh my. That's an actual leprechaun." Aquilai said.
"Notice how he keeps his distance from the clover," Cloak said, thoughtfully.
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*See "
Futurama" for the reference.
