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The Preserve, Friday Evening

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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Annette put her goggles on, yes she looked dorky, but woe, no spraying in the eyes! And she did spray, she sprayed everything in front of her and everything to the side of her, she even did a full turn every now and then and sprayed behind her on the stuff she already sprayed.

"One can never be too careful 'round here. Hey! What's that?" She pointed to the air just above her head and sprayed and saw a moth drop dead at her feet.

"Oh."

The lichen had no ears with which to hear, so it kept crawing its merry little way, occasionally getting its teeth caught in the bark before continuing on. It was a horrible life, being a sentient lichen.

Rikku stopped short. She thought she heard something! She whirled around and ...

Saw absolutely nothing. Which made sense. Because lichen doesn't make a whole lot of sound to begin with.

Disgusted with herself, she sent a fine mist over the ground just in case and kept treking on. Time to get serious. Her roommate's life depended on them. Well, skin condition, at least.

Sokka stopped and examined a lichen-covered rock. "Are you evil?" he asked it, before shrugging and spraying it.

Fred continued to hold his wand aloft so he could see. He was extremely spray-happy, considering the amount of moss and greenery around him; he didn't want to take the chance that he'd miss anything by accident.

Dawn had wandered a bit off the path, spraying trees and roots and grass and dandelions and frogs and spiders...right up until she ran out of weedkiller. And looked up and noticed that she was alone.

"Oh, this isn't good."

Annette? For some strange reason now decided that this thing must live up somewhere instead of on the ground. She didn't have specifics. So her wand was raised high, her head tilted back, and she was spraying while her claw hand raked the air.

"Die! Die! Die you motherfu--Ommmphh!" She never really would have said that terribly diry word anyway, not really. And now she was just focused on the fact that she tripped over a stupid looking rock.

Scrambling up, she righted her goggles and yelled, "I'm okay!" Then she kicked the rock. "Stupid!"

Zero sprayed the rock Annette had tripped over for good measure, even though she couldn't see any lichen on it.

The lichen had managed to crawl up the tree, spotting the group with its beady eyes. Well, it was almost the full moon, after all, and there was a lot of potential food there.

Slowly, it continued up the tree, and stopped to lie in wait above them. As werelichen do.

Dawn passed slowly under the tree, muttering about her lack of flashlight, tripping over roots, and snapping branches and generally making a lot of noise.

This could not have easier.

Opening its little lichen mouth in a silent cry of "BONZAI!!!" the lichen dropped from the tree onto ~~the horror movie bait~~ Dawn.

Dawn screamed as something landed in her hair. "Ohmigod! Get it off, get it off, get it off!!!!"

Rikku's ears pricked up. This time, she did hear something, no doubt about it!

She turned and bolted towards the source of the screams, spraying and slashing everything in her wake. "Hang on! We're coming!" she yelled.

Not that she was a "we" exactly. Ah well.

Zack had been spraying in a carefully calculated pattern that would end up looking a lot like he was playing battleship when the plants died.

He trotted towards Dawn. "What's happening?"

Sokka spun around, trying to figure out who was screaming. He had... gotten just a little bit lost. No one else was around.

Spray bottle in one hand and club in the other, he let out a war cry and rushed off towards -- well, towards-ish, anyway -- where the scream might have come from.

She saw that rushing and rushed herself after it, cause what the heck? The evil thing that needed killing?

Her damn goggles kept falling though so the rushing thing ahead of her kind of looked funny. No matter, she kept on because she had heard that screaming and yeah, Annette to the rescue!!

"I'm coming! Here I come! Got my claw!"

Zero came running toward the screaming, spray bottle of holy weed killer in one hand, neon green croquet mallet in the other. "HANG ON I'M COMING!"

"No, don't hit me! No hitting!" Dawn flailed and ran away from Zero, who she now considered more of a threat than the thing in her hair.

She shook her head hard quickly and hopped up and down, trying to get the lichen to fly out of her hair and hit something.

The werelichen did not appreciate that. Everything needs to eat, you know, and this was just rude. So it tried to hang on for its little lichen life.

Except there was that whole thing where it didn't have hands, so this might not have been working too well. Grr.

When he saw the lichen was attached to Dawn, Zack very briefly considered spraying her. Then he decided it was too dangerous and went to try and get samples from it instead.

Without telling Dawn that.

Just because he was a genius didn't mean he was smart.

Fred ran after the others, occasionally tripping over roots. He caught up to the others and began ferociously spraying around Dawn as she flailed. He didn't want to actually spray *her* with the weed killer--that stuff leaves nasty rashes.
"Hold still, Dawn," he yelled! "We'll get it!"

Rikku gasped at the eyes and teeth on the freaky moss thing that appeared to be trying to eat Dawn's head. "Look out!" she shouted, and began dousing it - and Dawn - and Dawn's hair - and anybody standing nearby - in as much weed killing holy water as she could pump out.

After a few seconds it occurred to her that this wasn't the best idea and she stopped, abruptly. "Sorry! Are you okay?!?"

Sokka charged toward the group, crying his battle cry. When he got there, he stopped short and cocked an eyebrow at Dawn.

"You? You're the lichen?"

Annette sort of flailed when she finally met up with the rest of the group and saw..."Oh my god, it's a bush with teeth! Dawn? What the holy crap?"

With her wand ready, she pursed her lips and began to spray, but her spray wand was either stopped up or she was out of weed killer and holy water. "Dangit!" She threw her bottle thing to the ground and whipped her hand forward, the one with the claw attachment.

"Okay, Dawn, just bend over a little." She was totally sure she could swipe at her head without actually hitting her on the head. She was sure of it. She just had to adjust her goggles better first.

"NO!" Dawn was now damp, covered in weed killer, and glaring at Sokka as she backed away from Annette. "NO, I'M NOT THE LICHEN!"

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