Yes I Am Falling

[reese]

Abraham sat. His butt was getting sore. How does a butt get sore anyways? He'd have to run some tests later. Mentally adding the subject to his mental to do list, he sat. Damn it! His butt was getting worse. He stood up (sweet relief!) He had been surveying the crowd for a while now, trying to pick someone out. This special someone had to be three of three things. A: He/She would need to be wearing rich clothing. B: He/She would need to be surrounded by grunting people going about their business. And C: He/She would need to have their pockets showing.

What, did he give his intentions away? Of course he did.

Don't judge Abraham too harshly. If you had to eat to live, and you had to steal to eat, then you were going to steal. More than half of Abraham's firework profits went into more materials, anyhow. And the rest went into various odd experiments that he wanted done. So, logically, he had to steal money or steal food. Plus he was good at it. So who wouldn't? Someone who doesn't understand the needs of SCIENCE! Damn, his feet are asleep now!

Go figure.

[Kurosaki]

(I'm filling in as an OOC for Vivi for now~ Oh god... Idk how to do Vivi. Hope this is okay!)

Freedom! Sweet freedom! With a deep inhale, the young woman felt like a new person again. Her escape from her confines, however, hadn't been enough. The young woman had also dressed herself appropriately for staying unseen. A light weight outfit with a hood and a covering for her mouth hid her identity perfectly. Princess Vivi would go unseen among her people for about two hours before she would be missed.

It wasn't as though she didn't like the palace, however. No, it wasn't that. She loved being there for her people. It was that she wanted to be able to go places without guards hovering around her. She had survived long enough before without any guards, thank you very much!

Vivi smiled to herself and looked around at the common people shopping in the market place. For a moment she recalled her friends, the Straw Hats, and wondered how they were doing. She knew that without their help all of Alabasta would have been destroyed thanks to Mr. Crocodile.

But all that was beyond her. Vivi walked, not noticing anyone in particular who might or might not have been watching.

[reese]

Climbing down, Abraham continued his scout. He stumbled toward a really fat woman as if he were drunk. He should have gone to acting school. Oh well, maybe next time. You tend to learn a few things whilst being a thief. Stuff like acting, sneaking, and... well... thieving. Obvious, right? And so, he had to sinisterly stumble towards the richest looking person, however much it may hurt. Seriously, this woman was fat. And the sad part was, Abraham could tell from her figure that she was once skinny and just ate her way to heaven. The slobbishness of it all.

(OOC: Don't worry! This isn't you xD)

While she was trying to buy a necklace that probably wouldn't fit around her neck, Abraham struck. He smoothly stuck his hand into her pocket and-YOWCH! He pulled out... a... a... crab?! Did she seriously intend to eat this?! "Really?! This is un-sanitary!" The woman turned and screamed. "This man is trying to take my crab. Guards, guards!" A guard turned. "You keep a crab in your pocket?" She threw him a furious look. "Sorry! Sorry! I'm on it!" And at that, Abraham was running for his life through the crowds while the guards typically yelled "Stop!" And: "Thief!" And: "You stuck your hand into that pocket?!"

* * *

Was he finally away from those imbeciles? It seemed so. That was not a pleasant chase, since the lady kept pulling crabs out of her pocket and throwing them at him. He had pincer marks all over his body. EVERYWHERE, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! He felt so dirty. He needed a bath as soon as he was done with todays work. And the next target is coming along.

A blue haired woman was walking down the road casually. This was his chance! She was dressed like a princess! Now, he just needed to sneak up like a gentleman. Just a little close-OWCH! Damn you crabs! He got pinched in the ankle and in his pain he flipped over the woman and landed on his back. Unluckily enough, this happened in his head: "Wh... wh... what's this? This woman is... GORGEOUS! I've never seen such beauty in my entire life! I-" Unluckily enough, however, the guards found him. "Look! It's the guy! He's trying to look up Princess Vivi's skirt!" Wait, what? Princess Vivi? Princess?! SKIRT?!! He looked up. Oh... my... RUN AWAY! And so he ran. "I didn't see anything! I didn't see anything!"

[Kurosaki]

Vivi was starting to feel more like herself than she had in a long time. Connecting with her people was good for her she was sure. No matter what "danger" was involved in doing so, it wasn't anything that she couldn't handle. Her weapons were only too easy to pull out. Nothing was too big for her now.

Though there were still some things that were completely random and insane. Vivi hadn't forgotten that from her time on the Straw Hat's Going Merry. However, nothing would have prepared her for what happened next. A man came running toward her. Vivi backed up a step and with horror watched as he flipped over top of her in his hurry and landed on his back. The wind from his movement caught her hood and pulled it down off her head revealing her light blue hair.

Vivi realized in an instant while looking down at him where he was able to see and turned pink in the face. She took a step backward. That was when the man began to scream that he hadn't seen anything and began to run. Guards were chasing after him and they shouted about her prescence and the man looking up her... Vivi's eyebrow twitched slightly at the embarrassment. She wasn't as open as say... Someone like Nami.

A guard ran up to Vivi while the others chased the man down. "Are you alright, Princess Vivi?" he questioned. He looked out of breath and incredibly upset. Vivi held up on hand and shook her head.

"I'm perfectly fine," she answered, the blush dying away now. "Now, you should continue after him before he gets away." The guard nodded with a sweaty face, eyes nervously bouncing too and away from Vivi's face. He took off running like the devil was at his heels.

Vivi quickly tugged her hood back over her blue hair and quickly tried to get out of the area before the guards realized that the Princess shouldn't have been out in public by herself to begin with.

"WAIT! PRINCESS VIVI!"

Oh, well, things weren't going as planned today! Vivi stepped up the pace and tried to disappear into an alleyway. She came out the other side and began to zigzag. Maybe if she got to the palace before the guards tipped off her father everyone would be okay? Her heart thundered in her ears as she full on ran back.

[reese]

Well, this day was turning to crap really quickly. All because of that one crab lady. Damn crab lady. If Abraham could take comfort in one thing from the day of pincer marks and running for his life, it was that he was now desperately in love. A little too desperate to fall in love within an 8 second time window? Maybe so, but this girl was just too beautiful not. Yes, dear friends, Abraham was in love. How would he deal with such a debacle? Of course he was going to obsessively stalk, what else would someone do exactly?

Okay, how to do this. Abraham sat at his cheap moldy desk in his cheap moldy house with a stack of papers dedicated to ideas and impression.

--Six Hours Later--

Okay this isn't working! He needed something effective, wasn't life threatening, and got the message across-wait a second. It was perfect! And so it begins, with random evil music sounding in the background, Abraham let out an evilly dramatic laugh. And so he went to work. Adding his own little charms into it, he worked until the first light tipped over the top of the trees. What fun this will be.

[Kurosaki]

Princess Vivi could only hear the sound of her footfalls and her heavy breathing as she raced all the way back to the palace as fast as her legs could possibly take her. Determination shown in her eyes since she wanted to be able to be free again and soon! If her father, the King, found out what she had been doing she might not get that chance again.

"PRINCESS VIVI!!!" cried the soldier from behind her. That was it. She couldn't get far enough ahead! Turning her head this way and that as she slid to a halt, she spotted a way out. The building next to her had an open window. She flung herself through the space and then ducked down under a table. Only the room wasn't unoccupied. An older man and woman sat there looking shocked at the table. Vivi signaled for them to remain quiet.

"Vivi-sama!" the cries became louder. Princess Vivi bit her lower lip and closed her blue eyes. The sounds faded. They were gone. Vivi exhaled a breath she didn't know how long she had been holding. Standing up, she brushed herself off and bowed politely to the older couple.

"So sorry for the intrusion!" she said sweetly. The older couple finally then bowed their heads and signalled that it was quite okay. "I'll be going now..." Vivi then went out the door leaving the old couple sitting wondering how someone so polite could one moment barge through their window and then excuse themselves out the door.

Six Hours Later...

Vivi had arrived back at the palace in time to trick the solider into thinking he had seen someone else. Now she sat contemplating her next outing...

(Sorry if my post sort of stinked. I don't know how to play Vivi honestly...)

[reese]

Yes! It was done! Cue evil music! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaa! Anyhow, it was finally finished. Abraham needed to try it out. Bundling it and shouldering it, he walked outside and climbed down his building (He didn't actually have a ladder and there weren't any stairs. Go figure.) And now he was walking down the street, whistling a tune of love. Well, not love. It was more cheerful, so Abraham supposed he made the connection. He now needed to find a high building. Spotting one suitable, he began to climb, slowly at first, but with increasing speed as his determined impulse kicked in for the woman he spontaneously loved.

Spontaneous... yeah.

"What'll the boys make of this? Princess Vivi in my house."
"I was here too, Gerald, dear."

The two oldies quarreled when their window shattered to reveal an obsessed head.

"Where did you see Vivi?"

Other than being startled and their minds exploding, they answered calmly.

"She went for the palace, I think."

Abraham nodded and then resumed his climbing. It was time to unveil his new creation! Un-bundling it, a pink and striped shaft appeared accompanying a large heart as a nozzle. "I dub thee the Thump Thump Heart Heart! Now fly, my pretty! Fly!" As he dubbed it, he lit it. The problem was, such a big thing would completely mess up the roof he was on. "OH CRAP!" And with that, he leaped off the building as it exploded and shot up into the air.

Over Alubarna, a giant message was posted. "I Love You," It said. And then it played a song.


"Awww, you really do care."
"Who're you again?"

Abraham landed in what appeared to be trashed, and upon rising, he found a woman was searching through it for something to eat. A really fat, nostalgic for pain woman. Her eyes narrowed.

"You!"

His eyes narrowed.

"You."

[Kurosaki]

It took Vivi a lot of simple scheming, yes simple because she wasn't that deceitful of a person, to figure out her next way of approach to escape her confines. Things in the palace were just so... Uptight and cut off from the freedom of the real world. Honestly, it was too restricted. Vivi felt like a caged bird. Especially after her time on the Going Merry with the Straw Hat pirates having taught her so much.

"They shouldn't notice I'm gone for hours. By then, I'll be back," Vivi said with a smile as she slipped over the walls and left her cage, flying toward freedom. Once back amongst the regular people, Vivi felt instantly better.

She wasn't sure where she was going this time either but her footsteps were light as Vivi hid her blue hair once more under the cloak and tugged it further over her face. Once it was masked in shadows, she felt comfortable enough to walk out into a crowd and mingle once more inside of it. No one knew that Princess Vivi was amongst them.

Vivi's head popped up just once when she heard strange music playing. Others stopped and stared bewilderedly up at the sky as well.

"Who's doing that?"

"What was that music?"

"Look, someone wrote 'I love you' in the sky. It must be an engagement proposal! I bet you!"

Vivi smiled, thinking about how good the person who had wrote the message and the woman receiving it must have felt before she continued on her way.

[reese]

Covered in burns, pincer marks, and several articles of trash, Abraham lay. He had recently been destroyed in mortal combat with the fat woman, and this was due to the fact as he was about to unleash his pretties upon her, a heart wrencher wrenched his heart, telling him she either didn't see the message or didn't get it was meant for her. Damn it all! He spent all night and most of his supplies on that. He now lay, a quite comical but nonetheless emotionally stressed. This sucked. If only he could face that beautiful princess himself. CURSES!

Well, back to the drawing board...

"Well Junk, I guess it's time to reroute your primary functions. I'll miss ya... bud," he managed to choke to a rickety hunk of junk that currently served as his home bodyguard. And yes, he named it Junk. You gotta problem?! Wanna fight about it?! He opened its head and began tinkering. Said tinkering took several hours despite its original simplicity as Abraham discovered several problems in the circuitry that needed fixing, unless he expected the robot to blow up in her face. That would be a problem...