Ru and Leo in the Sky! Worries for Weather Wizards!

[Fox]

Flying through the clouds was an amazing and unique magical experience. Flying through the clouds with Leo was all that and also horrendously anxiety inducing. Ru was pretty sure she would have fallen out of their little vehicle on day one if he hadn’t managed to scoop her up in time. It had been like three days, and Ru had barely been able to sleep at night. Food was fine, but they were starting to run low along with firewood for the flames that kept them aloft.

He’d been looking for an island or something for them to set themselves down on, but so far his efforts had been fruitless. Ru was also pretty sure that he was slightly going insane. But it was fine. Everything was fine. The only time that he got any peace was when Leo was asleep. And he didn’t really trust her to man the lantern by herself, so sleep was the one thing that Ru was lacking.

Ru leaned over the side of the basket, looking down at the sea with a thousand yard stare. The clouds and shadows of clouds were starting to look like islands. Or soft fluffy cotton beds. Ru groaned softly and rubbed his face before looking out at the horizon to clear up his queasiness from staring straight down. And probably sleep deprivation.

“...huh?”

Ru squinted. What… was that? He rubbed his eyes just to make sure that he wasn’t hallucinating, but, no, it was still there. There and they were headed right for it. An island floating in the sky. It had windmills and balloons and a whole town on it. The whole island was floating on top of what looked like a giant bubble with a circular rainbow over it. He blinked. Yup, still there. Wait, where they… going to hit one of the windmills?

“L-Leo? Wake up! D-Do you? Is that…? An island?!”

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[risaka]

Were in great slumbersome state at many points during the sky high adventure. She was like a dog, excited and hyperactive at the surroundings, other times she gazed into the vast sky with blank bored eyes. She truly did not know how to react or behave go the same set of clouds and birds. So it often ended up with her slumping in the basket with one leg hanging out over the edge. She snored like a lazybum as they inched closer to this... island?

She did not wake up right away from Ru's excited words, Leo shifted her position and grumbled random word "Nuooh, buuh, of course I would not sell that... mwuuh, please just let me hug the beeeear..huh??"

Her snooze bubble popped and her eyes lightly flickered. She rose up while looking around, not noticing the incoming windmill.

"There's bins with gills??" She asked like a fool, only to be met with a wooden blade from the windmill when she turned around.

BONK!

"BUWAH! Ow!" She snapped back and tore her flattened face off from the wooden surface. She rubbed her hurt face, and while she did that the windmill blade kept going up, snatching the paper lantern and thw flame inside as the basket gets caught on the net blade coming up.

"Nnnnngh! Somehow wood hurts more!" She blurted out as their flying vehicle kept getting entangled in the windmill, and the one blade catching on fire.

[Fox]

“Leooooo!” Ru cried as she refused to wake. He scrambled across their basket, trying to figure out what could be done to prevent the imminent collision. Unfortunately, Ru couldn’t think fast enough before the windmill was basically on top of them. He shrunk down into jelly slime form to avoid a wooden blade of a windmill even as it struck Leonora at the same time. The blade caught their lantern, the flame setting and setting the whole thing alight.

“A-Ah! Quick! Abandon ship!!!”

Ru scooped up the important supplies and sucked them into his slime body - mostly his own personal belongings - and tugged on Leo’s sleeve as he jumped overboard. He then immediately regretted his decision, screaming all the way down to the ground where he bounced off, wiggling violently.

He bounced and rolled down the hill that the windmill was on slightly, the world spinning around him. As he was recovering on the grass, several figures moved past him. When his eyes could focus again, he could see that they were a bunch of old… wizards? Ru squinted. Had he died and been reborn into one of his beloved books?

“Oh no!”

“The windmill!”

“Hurry, the egg!”

Egg? Ru watched as the wizards threw something up toward the windmill. It burst apart, creating a black storm cloud that rained on the flaming wreckage of their lanturn, stopping the fire but effectively ruining their only transportation.

“...huh?”

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[risaka]

With her attention too occupied by the fact her face got flattened Leo soon became the soon-to-be victim of a very horrible windmill incident, or accident if she kept just sitting there with her hands on her face. She rolled her tongue out and rubbed her face, mumbling out annoyed words until the her trusty friend Ru took the initiative by grabbing her sleeve. She let out a surprised yelp, not because she got tugged, but because the moment she let her hands down a blazing inferno has formed infront of them, causing her to let both of her eyes pop out like billiards balls.

"UWAH WAH HUH? FIRE? WE'RE UNDER ATTA- Blargh!"

She shouted out as she was falling down with Ru, but quickly silenced once her head and neck smashes down on the pathway to the windmill's front entrance, and staying there.

She did not move right away, just taking in the fact her head is nearly shoved inside of her torso. And when she heard voices nearing in she tried her best to roll back on her butt and greet the newcomers! And once she did she gasped for air, seeing the bunch of old geezers with funny hats and even funnier cone beards. She silently blinked innocently at them with a stupid big grin on her face, and suddenly rain began to pour down. She looked up curiously, seeing the black clouds above the structure and dousing it of the fire.

"Huff, huff! That nearly got our beautiful home!"

"What a horrible situation, if the fire spread it would've seriously injured these people!"

"Quite....hm? Oh! My apologies colourful one, you've been drenched in rain! Here, allow me to blow you off."

A wizard approached Leo with a seemingly sweet innocent smile, and slowly pulled out a hairdryer. Leo tilted her head, looking at the wonky design of this... thing, but the more she looked at it, the more it looked like... a pistol. He did just say he's gonna blow her off, as in blowing her head off?!?!?!

"This won't take long! Swift and easy, that is our way of life afterall, ahaha-HUAAARGH!"

"No one moves a damn old muscle! Mwaha, you thought you had me but I always have a back up plan! Foolish wizards! Although why would wizards use guns?"

She held the weather wizard in a simple necklock, snagged his 'pistol' and aimed it right at the right temple of his, threatening the group. And surprisingly, they all reacted the way she expected, fear and dread! They all widened their eyes with shaky hands.

"O-oh no! Not Luppy!"

"Please don't do it miss!"

"Grrr, we've been fooled! We should've known, she's one of the air bandits!"

"...Hmmmm, but isn't she just holding one of our hairdryers?"

They all stopped shaking and looked at eachother with confusion at first, which eventually turned into anger, they've been fooled twice!


"Eh?"

Leo got curious of this claim, and to check if it's true she straight up peeks into the 'barrel' of the 'weapon', pulled the trigger and... warm soft air blew her hair back, and her confidence. She awkwardly stared back at the group with a super wide sheepish smile.

"Ahahehe, hey, want me to blow off some steam?"

"...g-...GET HER!"

She quickly pushed the geezer hostage off her and booked it! Running across the cloud fields with wizards on her tail.

[Fox]

Somehow, magically, it started to rain right above the windmill that had caught on fire. The fire was pretty immediately doused, so Ru could only look on in wonder as strange cone hatted people with long white beards milled about. They were dead, right? They had died back on that other island instead of escaping, and now they were here having some… weird adventure in the afterlife? Wizards? On an island in the sky?! That was something straight out of one of his fantasy novels! Maybe they had died and gone to another world.

Ru looked over for Leo who had landed in her usual very graceful manner. Maybe not. She did manage to try her head out of the ground and sit up. Maybe… he should have cushioned her fall. Whoops. Ru suddenly felt like a very bad friend. He’d been a lot more concerned about escaping the giant fireball, though, to be fair. A scream made Ru jolt. Turning to look back at Leo, she had taken one of the wizards hostage?!

“Leo?!”

Ru reformed into his normal body instead of a little jelly blob and held out his hands to her in confusion. What… Well, that was a weird contraption. According to the wizards, it was a hairdryer. Whatever that was. When Leo went to check this claim, Ru went pale and covered his mouth to stop himself from screaming. And then… it was just some wind from the gun? Ru let out a gusty sigh of relief and made a mental note to never let Leo handle firearms in the future.

“W-Wait! Wait!”

But it was too late. Both the wizards and Leo had taken off across the cloud fields. Ru shot off after them, waving frantically to try to get someone’s attention.

“WAAAAAAIT! Th-This is just a misunderstanding!!”

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[risaka]

Oh she ran so fast, her legs kicked on the soft pristine green surface one leap after another while yelling out ridiculous claims or references of her being a mislabelled criminal running away from the cruel authorities that are more than willing to bring down the hammer of justice for unjust reasons. But she is just playing it up, being the silly drama queen she is she actually is actually having a blast being the chased, for she laughed whenever she outsmarted one of the geezers with her antics!

Around a nearby building she hid herself as a painting on the flat surface, watching them all gather up confused and frantically looking around each corner and creak of that side of the building, but once they all noticed the ugly shape of a figure on the wall she gave them a real spook by popping right out with a frantic scream.

"HUAAAAUUGH I AM HERE TO TAKE YOUR SOOOOUL!~"

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

They all fell back on their butts, and Leo let out a crying laughter at their goofy remarks, this is her kind of audience.

"AHahaha! Been a while I've done that! Who knew living in a basket for days would suck that much! At least I had a companion with me!... Speaking of which, where is he?-"

"GRRRR you foul bandit! To make mockery of us hardworking scientists! You two are a menace to our society, give yourself in before we... we uh... we get serious!"

With an 'attempted' threat from the weatherwizard Leo simply tilted her head and tapped her foot.

"AndwhatifIdoooooon't???? Me and my trusty companion Ru can AND will go against the world, for that is what friends do! Isn't that right Ru...Ru?"

It was only then Leo notieced she was surrounded by the angry wizards with no Ru in sight, oh lord did she make a mistake?

"Hmmm, I did not give him a script, that might be why.."

[Fox]

Ru wheezed as he frantically ran to catch up with Leo. He’d started off on the back foot and had sort of been trying to keep his eyes locked onto Leo. When she went around the corner of a building, Ru ran just a little bit faster, knowing that if he lost sight of her for long, he’d never find her again. When he heard screams, his heart shot up into his throat. He wasn’t sure if he should be worried for Leo or the wizards.

He raced around the corner, eyes going wide when he saw the wizards on the ground, but it was way too late to stop. He crashed and tumbled into the wizards, turning into a little jelly blob partway when his arms got tangled up. He bounced to a stop as a little slime blob right next to Leo, feeling horribly dizzy and a little banged up from his bumps and bruises before he transformed.

“Ugh… what…?”

Ru shook himself, snapping out of it and reforming into a humanoid shape once more. He looked over at Leo, just to make sure that she hadn’t been hurt in all the chaos, but it looked like she was more or less fine. Good. He sighed a little in relief before looking over at the wizards on the ground. They were a little bruised up, but that was probably more his own doing than Leo’s mischief. Ru flushed sheepishly.

“A-Ah… S-Sorry! We’re not air bandits!”

Ru bowed deeply in apology, all frazzled by what had happened.

“A-And I’m sorry for bumping into you like that, and, and…”

Ru’s apologies trailed off into incoherent mumbling with a slight twinge of panic. This wasn’t an easy thing to explain away, was it? Especially not after Leo had acted like - Well. Leo.

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[risaka]

Seeing Ru coming in sight Leo immedietaly lit up with excitement in her eyes! With a very brief tapdance on the spot she gestured over at Ru as if this was some kind of stage show for the wizards.

"AaaaAAAaaAaand here's my trusty partner, Ru! A bit late to the introduction but hey! Anything to make the show go on! But yes! As he told we are indeed NOT air bandits! Ahaha, silly fine gentle, no no noooo we are something far better than bendits!"

Leo quickly inched over to Ru, pushing her palm forward in a dramatic manner to put the wizard's worries to rest, despite her not-so-reassuring appearance.

"Cause Ru and I are the famous duo of magic! The uuuh, the uuuh..."

She halted for a moment as her brain tried to come up with something remotely sounding close to a famous magician or something. The wizards of course looked at her puzzled and uncertain on how to react. Leo's eyes darted from side to side, trying to grab the name of objects around them, she sees... grass! Grass! Uh what else, the sky, blue! Blue is a good colour! And finally she looked at geezers infront of them... a crowd of beards- that's it! 

"The Amazing Blue Grassbeards!"

Not the greatest name to be fair-

"The... blue?"

"Grassbeards???"

"A pair of magicians? That explains the oddity you two are pulling-"

"There's no such thing as magic! It's all science! Humbug!"

"WHICH may be the case! But can you explain...THIS?!"

Leo quickly reeved her arms up and used that momentum to do a rather high backflip! And when she lands she has suddenly turned completely black and white with a silvery texture.

"I.Am.Leo.Pleased.To.Meet.You." Her words came out monotonic and emotionless, like a robot! ... God they're so screwed.

[Fox]

Ru’s endless stream of apologies halted when he heard Leo continue her speech like some showman. Oh no. He was getting a bad feeling about this. He pulled himself up from his half bow of apology and glanced over to her with concern. Leo, of course, went in a direction that no one could have anticipated. A magic show? A magic duo? He knew a couple of little tricks from his time in the monastery, but nothing really fancy.

“The Amazing Blue Grassbeards!” Ru squeaked out, echoing both Leo and the wizards as if in answer to their incredulity.

They weren’t buying it. Ru couldn’t blame them, but it did cause him to break out into a sweat and smile nervously. In response, Leo did a backflip and changed her colors, acting like a robot. Ru stared at her for a hard moment before realizing he should probably do something to sell the act.

“O-Oh no! Leo! Don’t worry…? I’ll change you back???”

Jumping into the air himself, Ru morphed into a little jelly blob, landing atop Leo’s head. Now what? Well, his jelly was blue so maybe if he dunked Leo in it, she would… turn herself blue? It was the only idea he had, so Ru produced more jelly from his little jelly body, covering Leo in a huge blob of jelly. How did he get here? This wasn’t what he’d had in mind when he’d left home.

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[risaka]

"Baaa.Beep.Boop.Buuuuu!"

Still doing the poor motions of a wannabe robot the goofy girl did nothing but to further add confusion in the minds of the wizards, maybe her intention is to make them so confused that they begin to hallucinate? ... Nah, she just feels silly and wanted to give the geezers a show! And when getting Ru onboard on the magic show Leo turned her robotic gaze towards her trusty companion.

"Help.Me.I.Feel.So.Stiff."

Leo in a true actress fashion began to react to Ru drenching her upperhalf with that blue goo! She 'malfunctioned' and went haywire with her limbs and body, to recreate the scene of a machine getting a cup of water tossed into the electronics.

"BBVVVvbvbvbvbuuuuuhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuAAAA!"

Hallelujah! She turned blue! And felt almost limp on the spot, with a hunched back and a gloomy expression, the deviant sighs out defeated.

"Guess I am bluuuuuu now, oooooh well... hhhh-haaaaa... but what good is a world when everything is just blue?"

She told as she shrugged, asking the wizard crowd of such a deep question, or whatever it was meant to be, but it did get them to think, to wonder.

"I mean... there are times when I feel blue too..."

"Yeah me too, although its more of a gray, like a cloudy sky with rain."

"*sniffle*..."

"You feel it too? You know how it is, one moment you think everything is normal, but then you remember that one time your crush broke your heart, or when you lost an amazing ice cream on the ground..."

Leo with a sulking attitude quickly got the crowd all down and gloomy, and she herself began to sob with blue tears running down on her cheeks. But that's the perfect way to manipulate the crowd, by tugging on their emotions! And she of course stares up at the blue blob that is Ru, wiping away a tear.

"Don't you sometimes feel extra blue, Blue Ru?"

[Fox]

Ru had not really expected this outcome, but he supposed it made sense. Blue could be the color for sadness. But! But! It was his favorite color! And it could be the color for calm too! He tumbled off Leo as she slumped to the ground, jiggling as he bounced as a little jelly blob. More unexpectedly, perhaps, the wizards began to immediately sympathize with Leo. They matched her mood! A little too easily. Was Leo some kinda master of deception?!

“I… um! Blue’s not all bad, y’know?” he replied before turning to the rest of them, “Blue’s the color of the sky! Bright blue freedom! Or the color of the deep ocean, nice and calm. Y’see?”

Bouncing around and producing tiny blob arms, Ru danced and bounced around happily.

“Blue can be fun! See? Cha cha cha!”

Jelly blob Ru continued his little dance as if he was listening to a kickin’ tune in his head. Honestly, now that he had started dancing, he was completely and utterly mortified and wanted to stop more than anything. He was the one feeling extra blue now! But he was committed to the bit now! Anything to stop everyone from being sad! Even if it meant getting laughed at.

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