Prelude to WAR!!!

From FiranMUX

Log in 50 words or less: For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Cast:

Juliet .......... Lady Muggles
Romeo ........... Prince Sparklepuff
Lady Capulet .... Diamia
Lady Montague ... Tia
Scenery ......... Zafryn, Galinos

Act I.
The Forum.

Tia enters the forum from the bath house. Tia has arrived. Tia is followed by Princess Sparklepoof, the toy spaniel and Prince Sparklepuff, the toy spaniel. Princess Sparklepoof, the toy spaniel has arrived. Prince Sparklepuff, the toy spaniel has arrived. Tia enters followed by 15 Gold dragon clan guards and 5 republic guards.

Lady Muggles is very excited at the sight of Princess Sparklepoof and Prince Sparklepuff. Yap! Yapyap! YAPYAPYAPYAPYAP!!!!!

Prince and Princess Sparklep-etc. give a glance in Lady Muggles' direction, look at each other, look up at Tia (who has been distracted by OH A SHINY) and then BOLT TOWARD THEIR NEW TOY.

"Then you are.." Galinos stops a moment, looking towards Diamia a moment and sighs, he'd rather not say exactly what he thinks to Zafryn. "You will learn in time then, in time. When you have a riot and none will respect you because of it, then you will learn. That is all." He then turns his back on Zafryn, not letting him respond to anything. He offers a bow towards Diamia, "Your Honor, if he was beating on somebody and not using his words as he should have at first, then the lesson wasn't well enough. In either case, if you excuse me, I believe I will be heading to the Temple now."

YAY! Lady Muggles meets them half-way and if slo-mo where possible, it would be like a couple -- or a threesome -- running at each other through a golden field in some kind of cheesy romance movie of the week. Joy! Oh JOY of JOYS!!!

And lo, the dogs did start sniffing butts. And hark! the cheery yaps of happy spaniels could be heard from 'cross the market. And also probably a crash or two and a merchant declaring himself to dislike dogs -- but whatever. They cavort.

Diamia watches over the non-exchange between Galinos and Zafryn with a small amount of amusement, nodding here and 'ahh'ing there. And she is about to say something when her darling little dog runs off! As in, /away/! "Lady Muggles!" she calls sharply but her spaniel is much more interested in Prince Sparklepuff's butt than she is in listening to Diamia. Oh, what's this? The boy spaniel has something back here that she doesn't have! "YAPYAPYAPYAP!" is what Muggles has to say about that. *Firan*

Tia decides she'd better pay some small, miniscule amount of attention to the yapping that's going on. With a polite smile and a word of encouragement, "What a lovely bit of platinum!", Tia turns away from the merchant and the sparkle and looks over her shoulder -- oh dear. "Is that?" she asks one of her guards. "Is that That Diamia's dog? Oh, how tiresome. Princess Sparklepoof -- PRINCE SPARKLEPUFF!" Tia spots the butt-action. "I believe I instructed us /not/ to fraternize with such low-life!" Poor Muggles. The dogs are happy as happy can be, sniffing and yapping. Like Romeo and Juliet. *Firan*

"Lord Galinos, it's very unbecoming to speak of what you don't know," Zafryn announces at the Hydra boy. "It makes you appear a fool, and who would want that, now."

"Apparently, you would enjoy me being a fool, sadly, it is not. You can continue your idle ranting, but you are now falling upon deaf ears. So continue away as you wish." Galinos turns, now that Daimia's attention has been turned. He offers a bow towards Tia before he leaves the markets, tired of Zafryn.

Diamia gasps! "My dog is not low-life!" she retorts almost .. shrilly. She puts up with a lot. Hell, she probably wouldn't even bat an eye if Tia had chosen to insult Anais. But Lady Muggles?! Scandal! Stomping -- yes, stomping -- over to her dog, she scoops up her darling widdle puppy-wuppy and sniffs indignantly. Her spaniel, though, whines and yips at Prince Sparklepuff so far down below. *Firan*

Tia is bowed to-- which causes great confusion when she notices, half-heartedly, what it is Galinos is saying. She blinks at him, stares at him, and then asks (while keeping half an eye on the dogs), "What? How old are you? Three? Stop talking like you have a stick somewhere." Tia then bounces toward /her/ dog and spins and dances. "Look at her! Tiaraless. Silly mutt." MROW. *Firan*

Diamia throws her nose up into the air -- yes, she is that mature -- and begins to storm off to the north. "Putting tiaras on dogs is /stupid/, don't you think, Lady Muggles?" This is how wars are started, folks. Lady Muggles, though, whines and barks for her lost love, Sparklepuff. Oh, if people only understood dog-speak, the sad poetry they would hear! *Firan*

Tia looks down at her dog for a little longer than necessary. One eye narrows. She sternly shakes her head and then looks at Diamia, "Oh, no you don't, Diamia IstaNydiam, you come back here! Putting tiaras on dogs is NOT stupid and /I bet that Daddy Nydiam's wife/ would agree with me! And you know what else?! I bet he'd give me a tiara just because it made him laugh! HA HA!" So. Tia's not terribly mature today either. Happens. *Firan*

Yeah right! Tia is not the boss of her and there isn't a chance in hell that Diamia is going to return just because she told her to. "Laugh at your face, maybe!" is tossed back with a cackle before she and her guards fade into the crowd. HA!

Exeunt Diamia and Muggles.

Zafryn looks between the two women with a lot of confusion and, let's face it, a decent amount of fear. There's a pause when Diamia leaves, and he looks the the Sparkle puppies. "Well. I like your dogs, Lady Firgalik," he offers. *Firan*

Tia gasps! sputters! /recoils/! "Ooooooh," Tia says, snapping her fingers for her dogs. Sparklepuff whines longingly in the direction of his lost love, the Lady Muggles. The Firgalik twists her gaze, now rather volatile, to look down at Zafryn. She narrows her green eyes and says, "Of course you do. They're much better than some stupid Cockatrice ... /thing/ that has ugly fur and an ugly mother -- I mean, really. RED hair? Hideous. OoooOoh, that Diamia." THAT DIAMIA!!!!!! *Firan*