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.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Okay, so where're we going?" Dawn had no experience fighting plant fiends.

[the_merriest]

"In there!" Rikku gestured, hoping she sounded confident. "Somewhere in the woods, we have to find, uh. A lichen that isn't ... like other lichens." She scratched her head. "Maybe we zap them all?"

[swerval_zero]

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

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'm good with that," she nodded.

[fredoftheburrow.livejournal.com]

Fred put the closed sign out and left the shop, locking the door as he went. He wasn't sure what kind of protective gear to wear when hunting a were-fungus, so he decided he'd be prepared and got ahold of muggle and wizard gear alike: Fred was dressed in full head-to-toe camo, including a helmet and combat boots. In his right hand, he had his wand and in his left, a cheese grater. Because you just never know. Behold the power of cheese.

He took off in the direction of the preserve, and coming near, he saw that there were already a few people congregated there.

"Greetings!" he called to them as he approached. "I assume we are all here to hunt down the were-fungus?"

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

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled at the cheese grater. "You bet! That plant is getting a butt-kicking."

[swerval_zero]

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

[the_merriest]

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

[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]

"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.

[fredoftheburrow.livejournal.com]

Fred grinned and stuck out his hand.

"Weasley's the name. Fred Weasley. And I look forward to assisting you ladies in thwarting the evil that is this crazy were-fungus. Although I must say, it would be funny to watch Hermione turn all green and leafy, but without the dangerous side effects, of course."

[swerval_zero]

Zero nodded. "Can do. Any other swoo I need to know?"

[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?"



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[the_merriest]

Rikku shook his hand, grinning. "Rikku, and I don't have a second name. I guess you guys have different tribes here." She shuddered. "It's kinda scary. Her arms are getting all ... weird." She didn't want to say creepy, as it was her roommate and that was ... probably not very nice.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Eeek, Annette momentarily forgot about the contagious part, or the possibly contagious part. And goo, ew. That certainly did not conjure up happy mind pictures.

"I should have brought my claw too. If I had one. And if I knew what one was." She looked at Rikku with determination. "We'll get it. No matter what we have to do. With all of us? It doesn't stand a chance." Confidence. It worked wonders!

[the_merriest]

"It's contagious and evil so don't let it bite you. Holy water and weed killer mixtures in the bottles and ... uh ... I think that's it."

[fredoftheburrow.livejournal.com]

Fred nodded, trying to suppress the laugh. He knew it wasn't really funny--he could remember the painful side effects that he and George had endured while testing their Skiving Snackboxes, but those had been self-induced. Hermione didn't have a choice in this.

"Well, we've got all night, and tomorrow too, if that's what it takes. We don't have to worry about anything until tomorrow night. Of course, it would be nice if we could get this done tonight while we've still got some degree of time on our side. That's why I brought these," he said, gesturing to his wand and the cheese grater. "You can never be too careful," Fred said seriously.

[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.

[the_merriest]

"My weapon!" She couldn't help bouncing excitedly when discussing it. "It's a claw thing and it straps to my arm and then I attack things and go whoosh and they're all sliced up and it is so great and I need to show you some time, you know?"

Rikku stopped bouncing and got serious again, setting her chin. "You're right. We've got us and we've got weed killer and we will get this thing and it won't even know what hit it. Right?"