The Preserve, Friday Evening

[the_merriest]

Rikku stood at the edge of the preserve. "Okay, are we ready for this?"

She looked around at the others, wondering why she was nervous. It was a lichen. A plant. This was totally doable. Probably.

They had spray bottles of some mixture of holy water and weed killer - Hermione had said it was Fred's idea, and whoever this Fred was, he was a genius. And they had their own wits and strength and luck. Plenty enough to take on an insane plant and save her roommate. This lichenthrope was going down.

She wasn't nervous. Mostly.



[OOC: D'OH! Come in to lichenchat on AIM for planning purposes! My bad!]

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn had seen the procession heading out to the preserve and decided to investigate. Yes, she was that bored. "What's going on?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku waved at the other girl. "We're going after a lichen." She made a face, realizing how that sounded. "It's evil and attacked Hermione and we need to zap it before she turns into one, too."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Like, a plant lichen?" Dawn asked, grabbing a spray bottle, "Shouldn't it be really easy to kill, since it's, y'know, a plant?"

[the_merriest]

"You'd think. But since it attacked Hermione and she's turning green and leafy and that means it might be an evil undead plant thing, we can't be too careful." She shook her bottle slightly. "We've got holy water and weed killer, just in case."

She didn't mention that she'd encountered vicious three-foot plant-fiends before. Probably best not to.

[swerval_zero]

Zero wandered outside on a break from editing. Ah, fresh air...and a hunting party? Oooh. "Hey, guys, what's going on?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku waved. "We're taking on a dangerous insane undead plant-thing. If we can find it." She held out a bottle. "Want in?"

[swerval_zero]

Zero snatched the bottle. "I'm in. What are we looking for, and who did it eat?"

[the_merriest]

"A lichen of some kind, that might be undead, and it tried to eat Hermione. But she's okay. Well, not entirely okay. I mean, she's going all green and kinda plant-y. So we gotta get it before the moon changes, and that's tomorrow, so it's go time."

She nodded as if that made any sense at all.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Before her date with Dick, Annette had offered to help kill whatever it was that had bitten Hermione. Because if she couldn't kill the aliens that had attacked her friends, she could kill something with weed killer and holy water. A great idea that.

She glanced at Rikku and nodded. Annette was so ready.

[the_merriest]

Rikku waved at Annette. "Think we brought enough?" she asked, nodding at the spray bottles.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I sure hope so, Rikku. I would hate to run out and have to kick something to death." She said, though really, Annette didn't think she would hate that at all. Unless whatever it was was kind of cute and stuff.

[the_merriest]

"Maybe we stomp on it instead." She thought for a moment. "Man, I should have brought my claw. Then I could have slashed at it. But that kinda means getting plant goo everywhere and that's bad, right? If it's a contagious whatever-thing?"



[ooc: delete/repost/screwed up/sorry]

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka had seen people heading for the woods, and recognized some of them. So he ran after them. And turned around and ran back for his boomerang and club. And then ran back again.

Somewhat out of breath, he hurried up to the group. "Who's stuck in the past this time?" he asked.

[swerval_zero]

"Um, no one?" Zero said. "We're fighting an undead moss."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"A... Seriously? Moss?"

Sokka looked around at everyone. "A BIG moss? I mean, why do you need to fight a moss?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku waved to Sokka. "Because it's an evil undead lichenthrope moss thing that attacked my roommate and we have until the full moon eclipse whatever tomorrow night or she'll become one, too." She held out a spray bottle. "Wanna help?"

[swerval_zero]

"Well, we don't know where it is." Zero gestured to Rikku. "She's got the weed killer."

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack showed up, complete with gasmask, just in case.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn waved her sprayer at Zack, careful not to shoot him with it.

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack waved back. "Hey Dawn."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"So, ready to kill us some zombie moss?" Dawn asked. "I bet you can run all kinds of tests on it. And ooh, like the gas mask. Good thinking."

[smartestone]

Deeper in the woods, a lichen was making its way across a tree. Harmlessly, really. Nothing to see here, move along.

[the_merriest]

Somewhere that wasn't anywhere near the lichen, Rikku dashed around crazily spraying everything and anything that looked vaguely green. Or pale green. Or greenish. Couldn't hurt.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Oh, so they were doing it that way, were they? Sokka liked that. He dashed around crazily, about 20 feet away, doing the same thing.

[swerval_zero]

And somewhere a little further on from Sokka, Zero dashed about, spraying anything that looked lichen-y. Poor trees.