Ala landed outside the Kazeha Village East Gate holding Surion in her arms and walked up to it

Alix greeted his mum-in-law and checked her in for the afternoon. "Have a pleasant stay, Mom."

"Thanks Alix" she said with a smile "Hi to Lene and the Kids for me" she said and hurried into the village standing up straighter and taking a sniff of the air in search of her friend

Dia was at home that afternoon, taking a break from training for a while. It was no fun to do alone anyway. She sat on a bench in the garden reading through some parchments her mother had written for her.

Surion was pestering his mother something crazy as she hurried through the village and pushed the gate to Dia's house open and reached up ringing that bell

Dia's VERY large dogs ran down to greet the visitors. By now, they were very well trained and just gave Ala and Surion a good sniff-down, then sat and panted, watching them.

"Good dogs" Ala said giving each of them a quick pet then hurrying towards the house "Ok Dia I know you are here but where" she muttered as she got close

"Mamamamamama" Surion kept at her

"Yes Surion almost there" she said

Dia's ears twitched as she sensed someone familiar approaching. She looked up and set her parchments down on the bench and got up to go to the front of the house to see who was visiting. She rounded the corner of the building and see Ala coming up the walkway. "Ala! Hey, you brought the midget!" she joked seeing Surion.

"Yes, I brought Surion... now uhm here..." she put down his bag and then passed him to her "I'm going nuts I NEEED a break" she said "Back after dinner have fun playing god-mom" and with that she was gone using the Nether

Dia was a bit overwhelmed at the few seconds that just lapsed. There was a kid in her arms suddenly. "Damnit, I need to learn to do that too." she grumbled under her breath, referring to using the Nether. She looked at Surion and kinda just stared..."Uhm...hi?"

"Aunty Dia!" Surion said and with a pointy-tooth smile and wet lips planted a kiss on her cheek

Dia smiled and chuckled softly. "Hi Midget..er...Surion." She kissed his cheek back and set him down on the grass. "So uhh...how are you, little guy?" she said, trying to sound uber friendly.

"Sur not a midget" he said and put his fists on his hips looking up at her "What you doing?"

Dia laughed. "My, my ...okay, Shorty. I was learning." she chuckled. "Wanna come around back with me?" she asked, holding her hand out to him.

"Back? Otay!" he said but rather then taking her hand he took off round the building

Dia followed him around back figuring there wasn't too much he could get into. After all, Dimona had put Dia's old swing set and sandbox back up, being hopeful and all since the wedding. Dia figured he might want to play on them.

Surion however didn't go after the toys right away, he was more interested in the pile of parchment and by the time Dia got to the back he had most of it scattered around his feet on the grass and the final sheet upside-down in his hand pretending to read a 'story'

Dia's face faulted when she seen what he'd gotten in to. "lovely" she muttered and rushed over to Surion. "Those are not toys." she said bending over to pick up the parchments from the ground. She knelt beside him as he pretended to read. "Pretty good story, huh?" she chuckled.

"Yeah good story" he said and poked at the paper "Dragon" he said poking a small hole in the page before eying the rest of the parchment and then looking at his feet "More Story!"

Dia reached for the parchment to try and slip it out of Surion's hands. "More story? uhm... Shorty, these aren't good stories...they are uhm...they are instructions....uhm...boring stories, yeah...these are no fun." she chuckled trying to think of something to distract him.

"Story! Sur!" he called out and turned to run across the grass taking the parchment with him only to drop it 4 feet away once he spotted the sand pile

Dia laughed, "Sir?" she mumbled shaking her ahead. "Aye, Sir." She scooped up the parchments when she reached it as she headed after Surion.

Surion climbed into the sandbox and started to push the sand around into a large pile in the middle before looking around the yard, he apparently had a target object he was looking for but didn't make it obvious

Dia took a squat in the grass close by the sandbox and just watched him play and push the sand around....wondering why Ala was in such a hurry.

Surion jumped up and ran across the yard in the direction of the house seeing what he wanted... a hose... he turned the water on and drug it back with him... not that he had good control over it and the water went in all directions. he grinned he didn't care he just wanted to wet the sand, he didn't care what... or who got wet in the process which included himself

Dia watched Surion dart across the yard and grab the hose and she couldn't help but laugh as the hose kinda flailed everywhere as he ran to the sandbox with it. She maintained her sitting position, yeah, getting a bit wet, but not minding, as there's nothing wrong with water.

Surion nearly flooded the sandbox before pushing the still-running hose out of the box he tromped through it making one hell of a mess of him and everything around him before sitting down in the sandy 'muddy' water digging in the side of the tall pile of sand he had made

Dia just laughed at Surion. At least he looked like he was having fun. She crawled over to the edge of the sandbox, "Wow, this looks like loads of fun!" she said in an excited tone.

Surion looked around having forgotten she was there, seeing her and hearing her words he grinned a pointy-toothed grin and scooped some mucky sand and before she could stop him stood and planted it on her head "Aunty Dia Mountain!" he burst out into giggles

Dia's face faulted again, but she just chuckled, and got a very playful grin on her face too. She reached into the muddy water and pulled out a nice big heaping handful. "But Surion is a bigger mountain!" she laughed and slopped the sand-mud onto his head.

Surion blinked and shook his head fast sending that sand flying "AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh" he cried out "Gogo!" he jumped up and took off towards the house again and into it leaving a nice sandy mess in his wake

It took a minute to register what just happened. Crap this kid is fast...She shook the sand off her own head and sprinted after him as fast as she could. Making a mess inside was a whole new ball game. "Surion!" she called after him as she headed into the house.

There was sandy footprints down the hall and into a few of the rooms almost like a feather as it had been obvious he had been looking for something

Dia ran to the downstairs restroom to see if the foot prints led to it. "Whew" she sighed seeing he found his destination without tooo much disaster.

Surion was inside singing.. he didn't exactly hold a tune as he did though

Dia crossed her arms and leaned against the wall next to the door, waiting for him to finish.

Surion pushed open the door a few minutes later and slipped past Dia running deeper into the house and up the stairs

Dia reached out to try and catch him, but damn...he's quick. She went to run after him, and caught a glimpse of the bathroom and just stopped and slumped over, staring..."Crikey...."

The bathroom was a MESS of sand, and water the water was in fact still running. there was sand on everything, the counters, the floor, the towels even the 1/2 unrolled roll of toilet paper had sand all over it, it was obvious he had played with anything in arms reach as he went to the bathroom

Dia went in and shut the water off and backed out of the bathroom...blinking and staring in disbelief. As soon as she was back in the hallway, it clicked that the midget had run upstairs. "Crap! I hope bedrooms are locked" she mumbled as she darted upstairs following the sand trail.

Most were.... save one... one with pink interior and a sandy trail leaning into it. Opening the door would reveal a short blue-haired boy jumping on the bed and singing at the top of his lungs

"Should have known" Dia mumbled as she headed for her own room. She pushed the door open and seen Surion bouncing on her bed. Out of the corner of her mind she spotted her kunia and shurikens on the floor by her practice dummy and she dived for them and scooped them up quickly, and counted.

Surion hadn't gotten into her training and shinobi tools, but he held a stuffed animal in his hands as he jumped her bed becoming more messed and sandy with every jump

Dia tossed the weapons into the bathroom and slammed the door shut, locking it. She sighed relief that they were all accounted for and the only thing he was playing with was a stuffed animal. She leaned against the door watching him. "Shorty, lets go play outside!" she said, trying to sound excited.

He stopped and blinked "Aunty Dia show Sur dragon?!?" he asked her

Dia crooked her head a bit at his question. "Oh! Kouryou! You want to see him? He misses you!" She said standing up straight again, thinking this might work to her advantage.

"Sur want to see!" he nodded lots and jumped off the bed heading out the room and into the hall and down it... hauling the stuffed animal with him

Dia ran to her wardrobe and pulled out a black strap and then darted after him. "Surion, we can see him outside!" she hollered after him.

"out side outside outside!" he cried bolting down the stairs around the front room a lap and then pulled at the front door to open it

"Damn...that kid's wired." she murmured as she followed him outside. "Surion! come'er! if you want to see the little dragon!"

Surion turned and dropped the stuffie right where he was and bolted back towards her "DDDRRAAAGGGONNNN" he cried

"You have to wear the special Dragon Belt!" Dia told him as she held up the black strap she'd brought down with her. "Not only does it make you look uber handsome, but the dragon's love it!" she told him as she reached to try to put it on him.

Surion blinked looking down at the belt she was trying to put around him "Dragon has belt?" he asked

Dia chuckled, "Yup, they really like when people wear Dragon Belts" she answered him with a slight chuckle in her tone as she fastened the belt good and secure around his waist. There was a single metal hoop on the side of the belt. "You ready to see Kouryou? He'll think you look dashing in your Dragon Belt"

"Otay" he said still staring at the belt

Dia pulled her old tatty scroll from her hip pouch and performed the summoning, calling Kouryou to her. The little blue rain dragon appeared in a puff as the scroll disappeared. He'd grown a bit since the last time Surion had seen him. He was about the size of a house cat now. And quite a bit sturdier.

"Dragon!" Surion cried happily reaching towards the little dragon

Kouryou flapped his little wings fast like a humming bird and when he heard the child's voice he turned and looked. He recognized the boy right away and zipped over to him. Dia watched cautiously, not sure how they'd react to each other, considering they were roughly the same age, maturity wise.

Surion squatted patted the little dragon's head "dragon dragon" he said pointing a little finger at it

Kouryou snaked his long serpentine tail towards Surion, slowly wrapping it around his little finger. Kouryou's scales were perpetually covered with a thin layer of rain water, making him shine, and feel almost slimey to the touch.

Surion giggled "Dragon Tickle Sur" he said wiggling around

Kouryou smiled the way little dragon's smile and slithered his tail a little more around Surion's hand. Wrapping around people's hands was still a habit the young dragon had.

It was about now Surion wanted to give the dragon a hug and his free arm moved quickly to try and do that

Kouryou wasn't sure what the young boy was going to do so he moved forward, closer to him. He blinked his little eyes and gave Surion's cheek a little lick and then he felt Surion's arm wrap around him.

Surion giggled and bounced spinning in a circle "Sur made cliffs!" he told the dragon then turned to bolt towards the sandbox Kouryou still held in a hug

Kouryou went along for the ride, not really sensing imminent danger in the young boy. "Crap" Dia muttered again and darted after Surion. If anything happened to Kouryou, she was toast...quite literally as she knew his father would burn her to a crispy critter.

Surion however wasn't about to hurt a dragon, he was after all more then half dragonic himself. getting tot he sandbox he plopped down and let go of the little dragon and said "Cliffs!" and pointed to the sagging mound that was full of holes

Kouryou looked into the box and flitted his little wings rapidly. He dove down to the mound of soggy sand and presses his little front claws in, making prints. Dia caught up and seen the two in the sandbox and bent over putting her hands on her knees and panted. Damn quick little sucker...

Surion giggled " Sand, it fun" he told the dragon

Kouryou smiled and started patting the sand too. The little dragon's never really had a chance to 'play' before and he was having fun. Dia caught her breath finally and watched the two, staying standing, just in case she had to dart after him again.

For once Surion stayed in one place for a while, the entire time he played he was talking to the dragon, it didn't seem to phase him whether Kouryou could understand him or not

Dia kept alert watching him, not wanting to be fooled or let her guard down again. kouryou sure seemed to be having fun. He did understand when people talked to him, and he seemed to be nodding and agreeing with Surion a few times as he listened and played with the young boy.

Surion looked over his shoulder at his god-mom and turned "Sur hungry" he told her, indeed it was getting close to dinner

"What's Sur like to eat?" Dia asked, not sure what toddlers ate. "Kouryou, you hungry too?" she asked the little dragon. He nodded his little head rapidly.

"Meat" he said plainly and moved to stand up once again absolutely coated in sand "meat be red" he said he jumped out of the box heading for the house leaving Kouryou to stay or follow it didn't matter to him

Kouryou flitted up into the air and shook rapidly, shaking all the sand from his body and then followed his new best friend inside. "Red meat? well...at least I won't have to prepare 2 different things for them." Dia chuckled as she followed them inside. "Surion, the table's over there, I'll get some food for you if you can sit at the table. You too Kouryou"

Surion trailed the sand across the kitchen and climbed up onto a chair bouncing on it only succeeding in shaking more sand loose

"Mum's going to kill me" Dia muttered as she pulled the meat from the fridge that was actually set aside for Kouryou and Ryohan, he other dragon companion. She diced a bit of it and brought it out to the hungry dragons at the table, as Kouryou had mimicked Surion and took a seat of his own. Dia smirked seeing the little dragon...he wasn't usually fed at the table like this. She placed the plates in front of them, "Eat up"

Surion grinned "Fankyoo Auty Deeuu" he said with a full mouth a moment later

Dia chuckled and bowed her head a bit. "Welcome Sir." She stood, leaning against the doorway with her arms crossed, keeping her eyes on them as they ate. Kouryou devoured his little meat chunks.

The bell out front rang and Surion looked up from the meat curious

Dia looked up curious who was visiting as well. "Someone's visiting." she said to Surion. Kouryou paid no heed to the sound as he munched his dinner.

Surion nodded and returned to finishing his meat

A knock sounded at the door a short time after

"Surion, wait here, I'm going to see who that is." Dia told him as she headed for the front door, pulling it open.

Ala stood there looking to say the least a lil less frazzled and rather.... content and glowing slightly

Dia peered at Ala and smirked. "Have fun, did ya?"

Ala nodded "Yeah... and you?" she asked looking past her seeing the ton of sand

Dia just shook her head and chuckled, "sure...tons...yer midget's eating." she motioned for the dining room.

Ala chuckled and wandered in towards the kitchen "We appreciate it" she told her friend as she got there

Surion grinned "MAMA!"

Kouryou got up and wagged his little body excited when he heard Surion shout 'Mama' as if his mama had come into the room. Dia followed Ala into the dining room.

"Well now I see Surion has a friend to play with.... as well as having fun in your home" she smirked lightly towards her friend

Surion hopped down and was soon wrapped around one of his mom's legs

Dia smirked, "Yeah...the place is caked in sand." she mentioned as she moved further into the room, reaching her hand out to Kouryou, who didn't want anything to do with her at the moment, was too busy trying to mimic Surion. "Yer kid bonded with him." she chuckled, referring to the baby dragon.

Ala laughed "I can see this, Well least you found a way to keep him occupied should I need to do this again"

Dia laughed, "If you need to do this again, warning would be nice." she chuckled.

"Hey I don't have warning if my kid is gonna be spun up" she laughed

Dia peered at her through narrowed eyes. "I see how you are now." she joked. "Dump him on people when he's wound up so you can go frolicking with Torvil."

"Dia, he's been like this since yesterday when he spent time with Devin... " she said "Wait till you have kids... you'll understand"

"Who's Devin? And thank you very much, but you've cured all desire for me to create spawn." Dia chuckled.

"A creature Torvil adopted" Ala said with a nod

"Fun....what wound him up?" Dia asked, curious now.

"I'm thinking something he ate" she mused

Dia laughed, "And here I was going to load him up on sugar tarts before handing him back over to ya."

Ala swatted Dia and then scooped Surion back up "Well I should get him hom he needs a bath I can see" she smirked and glanced out the window "Are you trying to create a lake out there?" she asked

Dia rubbed her arm and snatched Kouryou out of the air before he decided he was leaving too. "me? no...Surion was I think." she chuckled, "Ala...it was nice to see him, it had been a while. He's getting bigger. Take care of yourself and hopefully, I'll see you soon." she said as she glanced outside, and face faulted, forgetting the hose was on still.

Ala chuckled "Ok on all accounts, I think he might wanna see his lil dragony friend anyways" she said and headed for the front door retrieving Surion's bag "Say goodbye Sur" she said

"Byebye Aunty Dia!" Surion waved

Dia chuckled, tigthening her hold on Kouryou as Ala and Surion headed out. "Bye-bye, Shorty" she nodded, as she couldn't wave easily. "Have a fun trip home."

Ala took to the ai r outside Dia's house and disappeared

Dia chuckled and let go of Kouryou, recited the incantation to send him home. He poofed and her matty scroll returned. She put it back in her hip pouch and went to cleaning up all that sand .... I didn't need to use the belt...that's a good at least.