The perfect company is the company you create.

[Lunadrakla]

Tabby's arm nearly flung out to hit Oret until she actually noticed it was him. As realization that 'her' prince was touching her hit Tabby's mind, a full blown shiver raced through her body. She was sure he was going to marry her now. To her, the fact that he might have simply pulled her from the window to keep her from danger did not even register in her thoughts. She glanced back out the window at the man still on the ground as Prince Oret informed her that the man was a king. Only briefly did the thought cross her mind of marrying him instead, but the king was trying to kill her and Prince Oret instead of saving her. In her mind the king was now labeled as an evil king with no taste for how to properly battle. The king didn't have lackies or anything.

Her eyes turned to lock onto 'her' prince while he risked his life and home to save her. Her adoring eyes didn't last to long though when the door cats came barging through the floor, grabbing Oret. Tabby had to admit the sight was spetacular.

As Oret screamed that something needed to be done or they were all dead, Tabby pulled herself out of her stupor and went for the only thing she figured she could do. She rushed over to one of the bins of jewels and grabbed a handful. She wasn't sure what she was doing or if it would even work. Holding it the same way she saw the monkeys clutch the water stones, she aimed out one of the windows in the front hoping that whatever she was doing it would help. Almost as an after thought to her flawed plan, she yelled at Daisy to make all the animals on board go and try to pull down the back wall...at least she figured it was the back wall. She meant the wall that was higher than it was supposed to be and if Daisy understood the command, the possiblity of it working might happen. Of course, it also depended on the cooperation of the other animals and whether they were doing it already or not.

[Boxicus]

After the bird zips down the hatch, the animals begin pilling at the back of the massive room Oret and Tabby were in earlier. Watching her spray water out the window. "No! That won't do any..." He thinks a moment. "That's brilliant!" He points to brass shut off valve on the water. "Thats it! We'll flood the main power rooms! Turn that valve over there!!!"

He continues to draw back on the wheel. "Cleo! Get the chains!!!!!" The lion lets his robe go dragging back two sets of chains. Oret grabs a chain and two marble slabs come up next to the wheel, and Oret puts his feet up bracing himself on the wheel. Cleo places the chains over his shoulders, and both lions began pulling hard on the chains. dragging him back. He grits his teeth. "Hurry Tabby!"

[Lunadrakla]

Tabby stopped trying to use the gems as soon as she saw just water pouring out of them. Well that told her which ones were the water stones. She started to turn around to go for another bin when she heard Oret suddenly shout that something was brilliant. Not knowing what he was talking about, she paused to look at him for any clue on his thoughts.

She saw him point over at a wheel on the other side of the room and tell her to turn it. She wasn't sure what he had meant by flood the power rooms, but he was her prince so he surely would not let her perish. Rushing over to the valve, she grasped ahold and tryed to turn it with all her might. Of course not knowing what direction to turn it, she struggled as she attempted to turn it the wrong way. As she grunted with effort to try and turn the wheel, she heard Oret yelling at the cats and other sounds happening anew behind her.

The more she struggled with the wheel, the more a seed of panic began to grow in the back of her mind. What if she failed to have the strength to turn it? What if she caused herself and her prince to die?! As the thoughts continued to lead down the same path, tears began to seep down her face making it harder to see what she was doing. She couldn't die yet! She still had to marry her prince! A wail of terror escaped her mouth when she heard her prince telling her to hurry. With all the might she could muster, she tryed to turn the wheel once more but this time she turned it the correct way. Not expecting the wheel to turn with such ease, Tabby found her balance disappear as the effort she put into turning it caused her face to meet the top of the valve when her arms twisted with the motion.

Pain and fear shot through her mind as things went black for the briefest moment. As she drew her face away from the valve she didn't notice the blood that covered it. Her sight was blurred from the pain, but her will not to disappoint her future husband kept her turning the valve till it couldn't turn anymore. She thought the red haze had returned but instead it was blood running into her eyes from a gash in her forehead running down to the base of her nose. Although she just wanted to curl up and cry, she strained to hear the next words of her prince over the throbbing sound in her ears.

[Boxicus]

In the power room, were four large elemental stones, Water, fire, lightning, and wind. The water valve released, began pumping water into his power room at the base of his keep. "Wait for it! Wait for it! He pulls a red chain firing up the fire and lighting elemental stones, his power room instantly pressurized, pipes begin to bulge against their restraints. He pulls a blue chain, and his refrigerant room explodes, the blast of pressure tilts the bottom down and they skim the water. With all his strength, he pulls back and the keep becomes sky ward. He flops back croaking for words. "We did it!" He struggles to his feet, grabs a fancy gold and black lever and clumsily drags himself over to Tabby, then collapsed next to her, he looks at her briefly panting on the floor, staring at the ceiling, he takes a white rag from his pocket and clumsily plops it over her face holding pressure on the gash.

"Let me... Let me catch my breath before you do that whole dying thing." He continues to pant a little. "Come on Tabby, let me know you're ok.

[Lunadrakla]

The bleeding had slowed down by the time Oret got to her. She sat leaning against the valve looking in the general directon of his voice. Tabby had heard him say that they had done it. And with the way he was over by her, she assumed that meant they weren't going to die. She felt relief flood her body and she about shut her eyes to rest when he placed the rag on her head causing the pain to sear to new intensities. A hissing sound came from her as she pulled air between her teeth as she gasped.

Moaning she gave a weak attempt at trying to escape the hand that was causeing more pain on her face. Tears began to pour out more from her eyes carrying the blood on her cheeks down her face to join what was already on her nightgown. After a moment, though the tears didn't let up, the pain subsided enough for her to quit fighting him and go back to a semi-relaxed position.

Slightly shifting her head so she could see Oret, she started to scrunch her face in a confused look but quickly relaxed her face as it caused a twinge of pain. "What do you mean dying? I can't dye yet. We're not married!" She started to move towards him but decided to deal with just giving him a puppy love smile. "I'll move from here as soon as my headache goes away...which your hand is not helping any."

[Boxicus]

He layed there for a moment, then moved his hand away... Then he paused... And it finally sank in what she had said about marriage... "Just how hard did you hit your head?" He pulls from his robe a small black and gold pen light, then reaches out to open one of her eyes wider shining the light in. "I may not be a doctor, but I know a few things about concussions."

[Lunadrakla]

Tabby winced when Oret moved his hand. Apparently his hand was making the headache not hurt as bad. She gave a slight whimper at him but cut it off when he began to try and doctor her. She had never imagined that her prince would not only save her from a most agonizing death, but he was also trying to take care of a lump or headache she gotten from that stupid 'valve'.

"I didn't hit that hard, its simply a bump." She didn't know her face was covered in blood so her statement was exactly what she thought it was. Suddenly she glanced around looking wildly about the place. "Daisy! The other animals! I don't know if they're aware of our safety!" She attempted to move away from Oret to go inform the animals that they could stop trying to put them back into the perdicament they had just gotten out of.

[Boxicus]

Cleo and Cesar slowly walked to the hatch in the floor, and hooks extended from their stomachs and they flip upside down attaching to the piping that circled the main room like a monorail. "Don't worry, the chain I pulled was an all clear, the only thing ringing is fire alarms right now. The chimpanzees will handle those, the rest of the animals have gone through a shut down for their self diagnostics. Once the fires are out and we land, Prometheus and the rest of maintenance will shut down for their diagnostics."

Oret didn't like bringing people along with him after these types of incidents, a bit of a chink in his armor. Daisy returns to Tabby, setting down at her feet, and seems to power down, gears giving soft clicks checking each tooth. "She'll be up in about an hour, she's just checking to make sure she's all there."

He gets to his feet with a groan and the muttering of "Too old", dusts himself off and extends a hand to her. "Come, we must doctor that injury."

[Lunadrakla]

Tabby watched in blurred amazement as the cats 'grew' hooks to disappear down a hole in the floor. She wasn't sure if it was just her eyes or if it actually happened, but she swore there was hooks. As the words from Oret came to her ears it still took some time for her to comprehend everything he was saying. She didn't hear ringing, only throbbing from her head and his words.

She saw Daisy land at her feet and stop moving. Tabby almost freaked out till she heard Oret saying that her bird was fine. Looking from Daisy to Oret, she couldn't help but to give a smile. It looked more like one from a drunken fool, but everything was starting to blur to the point that the colors were becoming one. She didn't see his hand but when he mentioned doctoring an injury, she tryed to pull herself to her feet while sluggishly arguing back. "Iiii...onlyyy...'ave a bummm. Weee need 'o mmakee sure 'ou arre okay."

Tabby managed to get herself upright and standing, but she had to stop there. Without being able to see anything she wasn't able to walk safely. She attempted to blink the blurriness away but it was to no avail.

[Boxicus]

(For Clarity: The Keep is 12 stories tall in the main room, with one room on each story, and a basement that is 12 stories, but rooms in the basement are more compartmentalized. The rooms themselves are built into a frame, that when the keep is lifted into flight, the entrance ways interconnect, and make a walkway along the back side of the keep. The main room then becomes a hangar for the creations, and a hatch is in each room along the back of the keep in the floor to the main hangar.)

He takes her hand and throws her over his shoulder, hauling her to the door that was the entrance way, he opens it, and steps into his bed chamber now thrown to shambles. Stepped around the mattress, and into a door on the other side of the room, that was a dazzling black and brass bathroom. He sets her down onto what looks like a modern day toilet. and goes through a medicine cabinet.

[Lunadrakla]

Tabby couldn't help but start to move away from Oret when he grabbed her hand. She didn't know who it was so the first reaction was to pull away. Just as her brain told her that it had to be her Prince Oret, he picked her up and slung her over his shoulder. The sudden change in vertigo nearly made her sick, the bile had raised in her throat but she quickly swallowed it done. No prince would want to kiss someone after they've thrown up.

She could feel them moving, but wasn't able to keep track of where they were going. When they finally stopped, she wasn't expecting him to set her down. The sudden feeling of falling made her panic and cling to him till she felt something solid under her feet and shortly afterwards her bottom. Settling on the seat under her, she reached up to try and rub some of the blurriness from her eyes, since blinking wasn't doing her any good.

The first thing she noticed was the pain and then the next thing was the chilled sticky stuff on her face. She winced slightly then slowly and tenderly investigated her face to locate where the stickyness was coming from because she knew the valve didn't have sticky stuff on it. As her fingers found the wound on her forehead, her whole body began to shake as shock of her head split open dawned on her. The next thing Oret would here is a ear splitting scream followed by hysterics as Tabby began to freak out. She began claiming in a high pitched voice that she was going to die and she couldn't die. She and Oret still had to get married! He had just saved her and she was going to die before her dreams were realized.

She began to stand up, hands searching for Oret. She had to find her prince and tell him her dieing words. That was the right thing to do wasn't it? He was her destined prince, so he was the one she had to tell her secrets to and profess her undieing love for him!

[Boxicus]

Thump went a cool white wash rag over her face, Oret wasn't sure which gash to cover first, the one yelling, or the one bleeding... He went with the one yelling to try and concentrate. "Calm down! You've got a concussion! You're going on about some sort of marriage!" He starts to wipe her face clean. He takes her hand and presses her hand over the wound gently.

"Here, hold this over your wound." He starts to rummage through the cabinet.

[Lunadrakla]

When something cool landed on her head, she immediately reached for it while plopping back onto the seat. As her fingers found the rag, she felt Oret's hand take ahold of it too. She dropped her hand back to her lap and simply began bawling. That was till Oret told her she had a concussion. Not knowing what it was, she thought the worse.

Once again the whining began, "Oh no! I have a concussion! I'm going to die! I have a concussion! How could I let this happen? I love you, Prince! I will love you for eternity, my dying soul will forever be yours! If only we could have wed before I passed from concussion!?"

As he took her hand to hold the rag over the wound he would find his hand trapped in her grip while she continued to ramble like a dying actress with one more scene left unplayed.

[Boxicus]

He sighs and crouches down removing her rag, and grabbing her shoulders, and starts to shake her a little bit. "You're making it difficult to patch you up with all that racket. I'm not a prince anymore, and I will never be again, am I clear?"

He wipes the rest of the blood from her face.

[Lunadrakla]

Tabby stopped talking as he started to shake her shoulders. Her mind whirled with thoughts but it all quickly came to a stop at his words. Not a prince? Never going to be? The words swam through her head as she tried to think through the throbbing pain. She didn't understand why he would say that. He was once a prince and that meant he was always going to be a prince.

As he washed the rest of the blood off her face, she began to come up with many different scenarios that would put him in the predicament that he was in. Of course, he had saved her from that evil king! He was a prince! And that meant that he was destined to marry her! There had to be some reason he had said what he had to her. All this thinking was starting to make her tired though.

Her eyes began to droop as she sat there contemplating it all. Finally she looked up in his direction, "I'm going to marry you!" The statement was quiet and more as a promise then anything else. Her hands gripped the edges of the 'seat' as her body began to grow limp, all the adrenliane filtering out of her system.