Our Lady of Fandom, Saturday morning

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

The singing was making him crazy, and it never stopped. Didn't the creatures ever sleep? Gabriel had tried shouting, waving his arms, more shouting, throwing things and glaring, but the flying blue hedgehogs had seemed completely oblivious to his existence. He had finally just lay down on his bed, covered his ears with his hands and tried to use the same tactic towards them. It hadn't quite worked.

Suddenly the doors slammed open, and the sound of people moving could be heard. The singing immediately changed into a strange, screeching theme, and hoarse voices called out in a guttural language. Gabriel sat up and looked around. Halfway down the aisle stood a group of what could best be described as goblins, who pointed at the flying blue hedgehogs and waved enthusiastically. One of them was wearing an odd spikey hat and another carried a staff and a big heavy-looking book. Gabriel blinked.

All of a sudden the four goblins brought out what looked like large butterfly nets and began to wave them about, trying to catch the now clearly worried hedgehogs. While Gabriel was relieved to be rid of the things, he did not approve of strangers just entering his church and catching them without asking. "Hey!" he called out, approaching the group. "What do you think you're doing?"

The goblin in the spikey hat turned and gave him an odd look, then shouted something in their strange language.

"Look, just take the hedgehogs, I hope they're yours, but I expect a 'thanks for looking after them for us'." Gabriel glared threateningly.

Another one of the goblins pulled out a gun and fired, and Gabriel suddenly found himself engulfed in sticky goo. He couldn't move, but he screamed curses at the intruders who proceeded to completely ignore him. Soon most of the hedgehogs were stuck in the nets, and the goblins headed out through the doors, leaving Gabriel behind, still stuck to the floor unable to move.

"Hey! Get me out of this!" he called after them, but they paid no attention.

[Open for those who know who they are]

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Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

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Re: Arriving

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal had Altra with him, and he was smiling, happy to be seeing Gabriel after the not fun times in Valdemar. "Gabriel, are you..." He trailed off as he came in the doors and stared at him. "Gabriel?"

Altra ignored Gabriel and went sniffing around the bottom of the altar.

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

Still stuck in the goo all Gabriel could do was shout. "I'm stuck!" he called out. "Intruders!"

A hedgehog that had managed to hide behind the altar from the goblins gave out a small sound when Altra approached and curled up into a flying spikey ball.

Re: Arriving

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Altra batted at it - a Firecat was still a cat, after all, and some instincts ran deep - trying to prod it to come out.

Karal, eyes wide as he looked for intruders, hurried over to Gabriel. "What has happened?"

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

The flying blue spikey ball flew at Altra, then levitated higher, out of reach.

"Goblins! They shot me!" Gabriel tried to pull his feet lose without any result. "They took all the hedgehogs!"

Re: Arriving

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Aly was wandering around looking for more people to 'discuss' the school with when she decided to poke her head into the church and say hi to Gabriel. Only it was more lost in "uhh, what happened to you?"

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Goblins!" Gabriel shouted, still unable to move. A remaining hedgehog fluttered above his head.

Re: Arriving

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

She smirked, glancing from the goo covered Gabriel to the wee blue hedgehog. "Goblins glued you to the church floor?"

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Yes!" Gabriel replied, then added as he saw Aly smirk. "It's not funny."

Re: Arriving

[carbontelepath.livejournal.com]

Emma was considering hosting another dinner party and entered the church to see if Gabriel would be interested in free food. She paused, confused. "What the..?"

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

Gabriel tried to struggle, but he was still firmly stuck in the goo. "Help!" he shouted.

Re: Arriving

[the_merriest]

Okay, she'd been way bad about seeing that church guy and making sure he had food. So she'd hit the store for some groceries and even got him a nice hot meal. Wow, she hoped Karal was better at remembering things than she was.

"Heya!" she called out when she opened the door. "Are you --"

And then she stared.

"Oh, wow, Fandom's weird again, huh?"

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"The goblins shot me!" Gabriel shouted, still struggling.

Re: Arriving

[the_merriest]

"Goblins," Rikku said, nodding. Eyes very wide. "Right. 'Cause that's totally what I'd expect, with the hedgehogs and all."

She dropped to the floor next to him. "Are you hurt?"

Re: Arriving

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"They hurt my feelings!" Gabriel replied. "And got me stuck in this!"

Re: Arriving

[no-toast-thanks.livejournal.com]

With Friday on a play date until this afternoon, Thursday had been cleaning the house when she heard the ruckus next door. She considered what had happened last time there was a ruckus at the church, frowned and ran up the stairs two at a time to get her gun. She didn't like to carry it, but sometimes it was necessary. Thursday returned downstairs, headed out the back door and climbed over the fence.

She approached carefully to find out what was wrong when she saw the small gathered group and the man now in charge of the church. The latter was stuck by something that resembled cheese gone very wrong.

"Is there a problem?"

Free Gabriel

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Re: Free Gabriel

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Aly looked up as she started working on another strand (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/1954817.html?thread=89358337#t89358337) of the goo-stuff. "Well, goblins don't, as a rule, speak human languages," she pointed out.

Re: Free Gabriel

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded to Aly. "Hey there. Can I help some?"

She crouched around to watch Aly work with the knife. "Would freezing it help? Might make it more brittle." She looked at Gabriel. "You wouldn't have to fit in the freezer. I'd just cast Ice."

Re: Free Gabriel

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Cast ice?" Gabriel asked, still keeping an eye on the knife.

Re: Free Gabriel

[the_merriest]

"Blizzard," she supplied quickly. "Local spell, creates a little ice ball about yay big. It's not much and you couldn't hurt anybody with it, except fire fiends. Lulu knows all the really good spells, like Blizzaga. This is just the teensy version."

Oh, dear, a Plan

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Aly raised an eyebrow at Gabriel as she tried to clean off her knife on her sleeve. "I thought the hedgehogs were driving you crazy?"

Re: Oh, dear, a Plan

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"That's not the point," Gabriel replied, sounding irritated. "The world drives me crazy. The point is they barged in here and took them without asking."

Re: Oh, dear, a Plan

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"And it's possible," Karal interjected. "That they were in the church seeking sanctuary. The goblins invaded that sanctuary and took them away. They should not simply be permitted to roam the island."

Re: Oh, dear, a Plan

[the_merriest]

"They might've been," Rikku said with a shrug. "Or maybe they're running from the goblins 'cause they're evil and the goblins are trying to take them out. I mean, just 'cause they're cute doesn't mean they're the good guys, yeah?"