Role Play Pool Party V.2

Finally catching up to Clive, Heaven looked to the roof and heard Bowser's yells cease. "You figure Bowser could recruit some decent koopa troopas," she said with a sigh. "But then you know the koopa motto.. We lie, cheat and steal and a Koopa always sneaks."

Clive laughed at Heaven's comments.

"That depends, I am a loyal koopa troopa and I don't often sneak or lie unless the mission calls for it," he replied. "Unless of course it involves an enemy, then I'll do anything to beat them."

"So where do you think he went?", Heaven asked Clive. "Think he's still in the bar or do you think that pile of slime slinked somewhere else?"

"He's probably locked himself in the bar still and not letting any customers in. As for Orinda, I don't know," Clive replied.

"There's no crying in baseball!" Iggy shouted into his wand as he then looked around him to see if anybody caught his random outburst. "Be a man!"

Heaven looked to Clive thoughtfully. "Should we split up and look for him?" she asked, sounding a bit nervous. "Or would it be safer to work together?"

Making his way through the stand-in closet, Spike found no hard liquor anywhere in Bowser's quarters. "These koopas are total squares," he muttered as he threw empty shells around that were hanging on a closet rack. "Spike, running for King," he said to himself aloud. "First proposal, bring on the drinks.."

"Work together," Clive said straight out. "I'm not taking any chances with this guy. He is very dangerous and I do not wish to face him on my own."

Heaven nodded in agreement and looked to the tavern and noticed the door was still shut. "Do you think he's still in there?", she whispered to Clive. She didn't want Spike to hear her.

Bowser stared at Iggy through his wand and stomped around loudly. "I DON'T WANNA BE A MAN!!", he roared as he then stopped himself and wondered where that childish outburst came from. Coughing, he then looked to Iggy with a bored expression. "We're koopas, genius.. not men. What's this look like, SMB the Motion Picture?"

"Oh yeah, he's in there alright. I don't know what he's done with Orinda," Clive said staring at the door.

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Elaine walked out of the castle for some fresh air. She stood outside as the wind blew her hair around.

Taking Crystal's hand gently in his, Murcury smiled to her. "Yes ma'am.", he stoutly responded as he then escorted her through the open door of the Ghost House and began the trip to the Vanilla Dome in search of the gems.

Spike was about done clearing out the closet when he found an old glass bottle filled with a golden bubbly liquid. "The old man's cough medicine..", he muttered aloud as he picked up the bottle and looked at the label, it reading ironically 'Old Man's Cough Medicine'. Rolling his eyes at the label's sarcasm, he picked up the bottle and dragged himself lazily out of Bowser's quarters and began his trek back down to the tavern, taking an occasional sip of the drink.

"Well what are we waiting for?", Heaven asked Clive as she walked up to the door of the tavern. Tucking herself inside her shell, she gave herself a hard thrust forward and went spinning through the door, crashing hard into the bar. Poking her head out of her shell, Heaven rubbed her head and looked around. "Show yourself!", she shouted aloud.

Powering off his koopa wand, Iggy put it back inside his shell and strutted back to his castle on Yoshi's Island. "Showed that poser how things work here AND I get to tinker with my computers," he said to himself with a sly smile. "A koopa koops once again." Opening the door to his castle, he walked in and shut the door down hard behind him.

Finally getting the cobwebs out of his head, Orinda walked out of the office with a temptation to sing. He didn't care how off-key he was, he'd do it anyways.

"Raphael is prude but crude," he sang off pitch as he approached the bar, "Michelangelo is a PARTY DUDE!" Jumping up on top of the bar, he slid down the bar on his behind, falling off the edge of it and landing on Heaven and her shell, smacking the floor with his chin. "Geezus!", he exclaimed, seeing stars float about his head. "I really AM Star Jones!"

Just as she was coming back to her senses from the collision into the bar, Heaven saw Orinda come flying down towards her. Ducking into her shell at the last second, she sighed at how much craziness had just taken place in a matter of seconds.

"Orinda," she said, her voice echoing throughout the hollow shell as the dragon was draped out over the top of her, "do you mind?"

Orinda was still laying on top of Heaven's shell when he turned his head at an awkward angle and peeked inside the shell. "Mind what?", he asked as he then noticed a dragon tail hanging out of the back of her shell. "You're a dragon too?", he asked in surprise.

"Of course I am!", Heaven exclaimed aloud to him. "Now will you get off of me, please?"

"Orinda, are you okay? Did that creep hurt you?" Clive asked. Looking round, he realised Spike wasn't present. "I see he's gone, where did he go? You finally got your bar back now. Congratulations."

Spike had finished most of the bottle he found in Bowser's closet off as he stumbled through the open door of the tavern and looked to see the three gathered in front of the bar. "Hey you six," he shouted at them as he began to tip to the left side a little bit, "get out of this place I own.. the uhhh... ummm... what's it called, gimmie a sec."

"Sorry about that," Orinda said to Heaven as he rolled off her shell and slowly got to his feet. "You'll have to explain to me how they made you look like that someday." Peeking behind Clive, he saw Spike standing in the doorway, looking quite disoriented. "Clive you forgot to look behind you.", he said, shaking a little bit and looking for someone to hide behind.

"I'll explain it to you later.", Heaven said as she peeked her head back out from her shell and got to her feet. Using a free hand to massage her tail which had cramped out from being squished against the bar barrier, she kept her eyes on Spike. "Okay, listen you," she said to him coldly. "This is Orinda's tavern. From the orders from myself, the Koopa Queen and the entire Koopa Klan, I insist you leave immediately."

Clive turned around to face Spike. "So you are still here. This is Orinda's bar, not yours. So it you who should get out."

Spike looked at Clive awkwardly as he about stumbled over his own feet. "Still here?" he asked with his voice slurred, "I just got here genius!" Taking the bottle in his hand and ripping off the top, he poured the remaining alcohol all over Clive.

"HA!", he shouted as he about fell on his behind but let his thick tail catch him. "The Queen of Koopas looks like a male."