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The delinquents
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"Ah aha ha, woooo," a blond little girl in a comfy chocolate-shaded sweater happily screamed, bumping about while waving her hands in the air as she rode at the back of a small-building sized bioluminescent rainbow-like frog with a suited living rock situated in its front that guided its movement.
"Mr. ROCKY! WHERE ARE WE GOIN'." Panda loudly shrieked, scaring every animal in her vicinity.
"Be patient, Miss Panda, we are almost there," Rocky said with a fluent accent as he wore a blood-colored pelt suit with a silver shirt on the inside.
"There were"
"There there!"
"There there were!"
They both exchanged endless questions before Rocky finally changed his sentence as he stopped in a grassy topography.
"We are here!"
"There there there there where- oh we are?"
Panda said, stopping mid-way before jumping down to a field of light-green grass with her bare foot.
In front of them, floated an endless sea of hovering plant-themed houses/cottages that formed a botanical municipality, with branches connecting them and acting like roads and foundations.
"It's so pweetyyyyyy!!"
Panda jogged toward the biotropolis with haste as her feet dragged dirt while she progressed in the path.
Panda got to the periphery of the city, causing short figures in an outer outpost in the sky to notice her presence and look toward the trio.
The outpost was a simple shack decorated with multiple blue bee hives around the sides and green lines vaguely seen on the hut.
"Interesting team we have here!" One of the dwarfs dressed in an emerald-tinted cardigan and hazel-colored leather pants said as he smoked a pipe.
"I've seen better personally." A wood armored dwarf commented while picking up an ink-shaded metal cane with a silver-skull design on its tip.
"Your dysfunctional family doesn't count."
"Low blow,"
"Of course, it's low. We are dwarfs!"
The two conversed as Panda came to a forceful stop as a gigantic orange force field halted her progress. She glanced at it in a daze, poking it numerous times and making it release a humming sound each time.
"Sir Rocky, I can't get in…help," said Panda with a pout as she pointed her index finger at the barrier that stood there.
"Yes, I can see that," Rocky said, walking to her and pausing at the obstruction before bringing out a gold ID with an unrecognizable ancient pattern on its exterior.
"What's that?"
"A key."
"A key to what?"
"To here."
"Cool, open it, open it!"
"Yes, I planned to do that."
Rocky wiped the gleaming card in the air, resulting in the dirt below them abruptly drifting up with a pointed shape at the bottom and a flat shape at the top like an inverted pyramid before heading towards the border and bypassing it.
"Rocky, you did it!"
"Indeed."
"Great!!!"
"Yes."
"•_•, won't kill you to act excited, you know!"
Pando then ignored the rock and gazed at the bustling and artistic city that looked pleasing to witness the closer she got to it. She could finally see the striking flora craft up close and personal.
The smell of countless plants hit her snout, and the pure mana in the air made it feel like she was on cloud 9.
Before she could slowly encapsulate herself in it, she noticed a member of theirs seemed to be absent.
"Mr. Rocky, where is the frog?"
"He went out to play in a pond, don't worry about him!" Rocky said, looking at a massive brown estate--majestically situated in the distance with countless radiant bridges inserted in its layout.
"Oh, ok!"
"Yes!"
"So, Uhm, where are we going?" Panda asked, fascinated by an eight-legged spider treant that carried dwarven children on its body despite its slightly nasty build.
"Nowhere."
"Why not!" Panda said with tears in the corners of her eyes.
"I mean nowhere, it's the name of a shop… we need to buy some materials," Rocky answered, and the drops of water vanished from Panda's face as a smile that reached her ears replaced it.
"Yay!"
"You can go play with them if you want to!"
"I- thank you!"
Panda then jumped toward the tree robots and landed on its head, startling the other riders. The moment she descended, a golden glow materialized on the contraception, inducing it to move faster and scaring the other kids into a panic.
"Arhhhhhh!"
They all screamed in anxiety, with Panda cheering loudly as she loosely held on to it and was flung about as a cloth hung from a rope during a storm.
Rocky gave a small smile on its stone frame, putting his hands into his thin trousers pockets.
"You seem happy today, Rocky? Where have you been!"
A sweet alluring sound came from Rocky's back, and a swarm of vines appeared from his back, slowly forming the figure of a dashing woman by his sides.
"Happy is a strong word! And my creator had 'use of me,' and we only met for a day, let's not be too informal." Rocky said, observing the city as the structure below him flew to the platform Panda transversed.
"Hmph, you don't know how to treat a lady!"
"Stop talking to me."
"Tsk, no fun!"
"Keep it professional! I don't do small talk."
"We can talk somewhere else!"
"Strictly business."
He passed the arachnid golem, and the tree-like woman asked, "is she your daughter."
"No, she is my sister,"
"Your sister? I don't see the resemblance!"
"Look harder!"
"I am looking!
"Well, not enough."
"I- you are mocking me!!!"
"Yes, yes, I am."
"Meanie!"
Rocky paused and robotically turned to the woman causing her to get started, "Irina, just say what you want!"
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Irina scratched the back of her head with a sheepish grin as she answered, "Alright, I need money!"
"111!"
"What?" Irina asked with confusion evident on her face.
"111 words it took to get you to ask!"
"I- you are not a nice person!"
"My creator made me play a song once that relates to this scenario…"
"What song?"
~~Okay, get yo kids, but then they got their friends
I pulled up in the Benz, and they all got a pen
We all went to din' and then I had to pay
If you fuckin' with this girl then you better be paid
Do you know why?
It takes too much to touch her
From what I heard she got a baby by Busta
My best friend says she used to fuck with Usher
I don't care what none of you say I still love her
Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger, uh
But she ain't messin' with no broke n****, uh
Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger, uh
But she ain't messin' with no broke n****, uh~~
Rocky vibrated as the song played from his body, and Irina was baffled and a bit pissed.
"Are you implying I'm a gold digger?" She asked with anger in her eyes and vines flaring.
"Of course not. I am not saying you are only interested in one's financial stability, however, it must be said that you avoid relations with individuals below the poverty line."
Rocky said in a non-hostile tone as he went unto a blue stone platform with a floral pattern.
"Oh, I see!" Irina said with a sorry expression before she tilted her head and thought," poverty line..: wait?!! YOU BASTARD!!!"
"HA HA HA!"
Rocky chuckled as the platform shifted and a collection of large branches covered him up, warping space and dispatching him away from that spot silently and mysteriously.