This choice: Nope...they still bicker, even now.... • Go Back...Chapter #5They're Both Idiots by: Unknown As the fires keep on burning, both Helga and Lydia look to each other. You seriously hope that both of them would bury the hatchet before Grimmsly Lodge burns to the ground. However, Helga and Lydia still glare at each other. It would seem even in a dire situation, the troll and weasel giantesses weren't too keen on working together. "Are you kidding?" asks Helga. "You're putting the fate of the entire lodge in the hands of that bubble butted stoat and her crazy potion? How do we even know that thing will work? For all we know, it could be made out of something flammable that would make the fire worse." Lydia gets made and holds up her claws dangerously close Helga's face.
"It's a magic potion, Helga," says Lydia through gritted teeth. "It doesn't matter!" "Magic?" asks Helga. "What a load of minotaur." "You're a troll! A creature related to fairies! Something that humans used to believe were creatures of mythology." "Well, most trolls can't use magic! It's nature telling us not to rely on such flights of fancy." Azure grunts and slaps herself in the face. "You IDIOTS! Can't you see that there's a fire! We could all be killed here!" Vernon let out a groan and held his face. "I'm the idiot for thinking those two could work together."
Helga grunts and then attempts to bring out a machine that looks like some high-tech pump with a firehose attached to it. Lydia is less than impressed. "That's what you're planning on putting out the fire with? It looks like an oversized toilet cleaner." Helga gives a growl and holds up the hose. "Oh yeah?" she asks. Lydia takes out another potion and out of spite, pours it down the fire hose. The potion then bubbles up and hardens, rendering the hose useless as Helga tries to turn it on. "You moron!" yells Azure. "What did you do that for?! That could've been useful!" You and Roxy shake your heads. Those two had some really messed up priorities.
Suddenly the fire grows more intense and Elisa gives a grunt. The hippo/dragon hybrid breathes fire at of her mouth at the flames that are coming in fast. "Elisa!" yells Azure. "What are you doing?!" Elisa points out that the fire is less intense than before. "Fighting fire with fire," says Elisa. "Literally. Come on, Roxy, we need to put out these flames. Leave those two fools to argue." Roxy and Elisa burst through a burned wall and see the fire spreading. Wasting no time, they both flap their wings in order to fan the flames. Outside, several of the other staff are busy hoping to put out the flames. Felicia and Connie are escorting the guests out while Victoria tosses snowballs at the flames and Elektra sprays water from her trunk. "Good grief," says Felicia. "What a calamity."
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A half hour later, the flames have been put out. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. The bad news was that a good chunk of the lodge was burned, including Azure's office. Azure let out a groan and lowered her head. "My lodge," she says. "Look at the damage that fire did to my lodge. I had a Gimghoul Painting in there worth thousands of skulls!" "At least nobody got hurt," says Vernon. "But it'll take weeks to repair this damage." You sit on Elisa's shoulder as both Helga and Lydia give nervous looks. Suddenly, Azure turns to face the two and she is pissed.
"You imbeciles! You mean to tell me that you two despise each other so much that you couldn't be bothered to work together when our lives were in danger! For all I know, one or both of you caused that fire in the first place!" "It's her fault!" yells Helga pointing an accusing finger to Lydia. "You're a liar!" yells Lydia. "I'll bet one of your contraptions short-circuited and caught fire." "If that's true, maybe you sabotaged it. Then again, that would require brains."
"SHUT UP!" shouts Azure right before she slaps both of them in the face so hard that it leaves an imprint. Your coyote boss roars so loud that even Vernon is scared. "Because you two were too busy arguing to stop half the lodge from burning down, you two have to pay for repairs! And you'll both be extremely lucky if I don't evict you afterwards!" Lydia bites her lip. "I'm kind of short on cash this month." "Same here." Says Helga. Azure growls. "Well then, you better get the money. I don't care if you have to sell your own organs. I want you both to get the money in seven days or else!"
Lydia and Helga grumble and then go off to find work to earn enough money to fix the lodge. "Loser." Mutters Lydia. "Jerk." Says Helga. Azure lets out a sigh and turns to face you, Roxy and Elisa. "I want you three to follow those idiots and make sure they don't do anything stupid." You all nod your heads.
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